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Diffstat (limited to 'activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb index def0fdaa2f..3f81ca7555 100644 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ require 'arel' require 'active_record/errors' module ActiveRecord #:nodoc: + # = Active Record + # # Active Record objects don't specify their attributes directly, but rather infer them from the table definition with # which they're linked. Adding, removing, and changing attributes and their type is done directly in the database. Any change # is instantly reflected in the Active Record objects. The mapping that binds a given Active Record class to a certain @@ -1417,7 +1419,7 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc: # For example in the test suite the topic model's after_initialize method sets the author_email_address to # test@test.com. I would have thought this would mean that all cloned models would have an author email address # of test@test.com. However the test_clone test method seems to test that this is not the case. As a result the - # after_initialize callback has to be run *before* the copying of the atrributes rather than afterwards in order + # after_initialize callback has to be run *before* the copying of the attributes rather than afterwards in order # for all tests to pass. This makes no sense to me. callback(:after_initialize) if respond_to_without_attributes?(:after_initialize) cloned_attributes = other.clone_attributes(:read_attribute_before_type_cast) |