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Diffstat (limited to 'activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb index 499b00a815..0b33ee881b 100644 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb @@ -1520,10 +1520,16 @@ module ActiveRecord # object that is the inverse of this <tt>belongs_to</tt> association. Does not work in # combination with the <tt>:polymorphic</tt> options. # See ActiveRecord::Associations::ClassMethods's overview on Bi-directional associations for more detail. + # [:optional] + # When set to +true+, the association will not have its presence validated. # [:required] # When set to +true+, the association will also have its presence validated. # This will validate the association itself, not the id. You can use # +:inverse_of+ to avoid an extra query during validation. + # NOTE: <tt>required</tt> is set to <tt>true</tt> by default and is deprecated. If + # you don't want to have association presence validated, use <tt>optional: true</tt>. + # + # # # Option examples: # belongs_to :firm, foreign_key: "client_of" @@ -1536,7 +1542,7 @@ module ActiveRecord # belongs_to :post, counter_cache: true # belongs_to :comment, touch: true # belongs_to :company, touch: :employees_last_updated_at - # belongs_to :user, required: true + # belongs_to :user, optional: true def belongs_to(name, scope = nil, options = {}) reflection = Builder::BelongsTo.build(self, name, scope, options) Reflection.add_reflection self, name, reflection |