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| -rw-r--r-- | activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | activerecord/test/cases/attribute_methods_test.rb | 8 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb index 99930e7697..cb2c621c79 100644 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb @@ -1870,12 +1870,16 @@ MSG # Returns the contents of the record as a nicely formatted string. def inspect - attributes_as_nice_string = self.class.column_names.collect { |name| - if has_attribute?(name) - "#{name}: #{attribute_for_inspect(name)}" - end - }.compact.join(", ") - "#<#{self.class} #{attributes_as_nice_string}>" + inspection = if @attributes + self.class.column_names.collect { |name| + if has_attribute?(name) + "#{name}: #{attribute_for_inspect(name)}" + end + }.compact.join(", ") + else + "not initialized" + end + "#<#{self.class} #{inspection}>" end protected diff --git a/activerecord/test/cases/attribute_methods_test.rb b/activerecord/test/cases/attribute_methods_test.rb index 5074ae50ab..54c4d4ae90 100644 --- a/activerecord/test/cases/attribute_methods_test.rb +++ b/activerecord/test/cases/attribute_methods_test.rb @@ -109,6 +109,14 @@ class AttributeMethodsTest < ActiveRecord::TestCase assert_respond_to topic, :title end + # IRB inspects the return value of "MyModel.allocate" + # by inspecting it. + def test_allocated_object_can_be_inspected + topic = Topic.allocate + assert_nothing_raised { topic.inspect } + assert topic.inspect, "#<Topic not initialized>" + end + def test_array_content topic = Topic.new topic.content = %w( one two three ) |