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| -rwxr-xr-x | activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb index 47b8b6b92b..7c89ba452a 100755 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb @@ -1247,7 +1247,11 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc: freeze end - # Returns a clone of the record that hasn't been assigned an id yet and is treated as a new record. + # Returns a clone of the record that hasn't been assigned an id yet and + # is treated as a new record. Note that this is a "shallow" clone: + # it copies the object's attributes only, not its associations. + # The extent of a "deep" clone is application-specific and is therefore + # left to the application to implement according to its need. def clone attrs = self.attributes_before_type_cast attrs.delete(self.class.primary_key) |