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Diffstat (limited to 'activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb index 714f623af3..f3f77e21c0 100644 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb @@ -1213,7 +1213,8 @@ module ActiveRecord # Returns the associated object. +nil+ is returned if none is found. # [association=(associate)] # Assigns the associate object, extracts the primary key, sets it as the foreign key, - # and saves the associate object. + # and saves the associate object. To avoid database inconsistencies, permanently deletes an existing + # associated object when assigning a new one, even if the new one isn't saved to database. # [build_association(attributes = {})] # Returns a new object of the associated type that has been instantiated # with +attributes+ and linked to this object through a foreign key, but has not |