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Diffstat (limited to 'activerecord')
| -rw-r--r-- | activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/association.rb | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/collection_proxy.rb | 19 |
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/association.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/association.rb index 5d0927f17d..0bb63b97ae 100644 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/association.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/association.rb @@ -17,6 +17,23 @@ module ActiveRecord # CollectionAssociation # HasManyAssociation + ForeignAssociation # HasManyThroughAssociation + ThroughAssociation + # + # Associations in Active Record are middlemen between the object that + # holds the association, known as the <tt>owner</tt>, and the associated + # result set, known as the <tt>target</tt>. Association metadata is available in + # <tt>reflection</tt>, which is an instance of <tt>ActiveRecord::Reflection::AssociationReflection</tt>. + # + # For example, given + # + # class Blog < ActiveRecord::Base + # has_many :posts + # end + # + # blog = Blog.first + # + # The association of <tt>blog.posts</tt> has the object +blog+ as its + # <tt>owner</tt>, the collection of its posts as <tt>target</tt>, and + # the <tt>reflection</tt> object represents a <tt>:has_many</tt> macro. class Association #:nodoc: attr_reader :owner, :target, :reflection diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/collection_proxy.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/collection_proxy.rb index 78993cee8a..edcb44f0fc 100644 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/collection_proxy.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/collection_proxy.rb @@ -2,11 +2,8 @@ module ActiveRecord module Associations - # Association proxies in Active Record are middlemen between the object that - # holds the association, known as the <tt>@owner</tt>, and the actual associated - # object, known as the <tt>@target</tt>. The kind of association any proxy is - # about is available in <tt>@reflection</tt>. That's an instance of the class - # ActiveRecord::Reflection::AssociationReflection. + # Collection proxies in Active Record are middlemen between an + # <tt>association</tt>, and its <tt>target</tt> result set. # # For example, given # @@ -16,14 +13,14 @@ module ActiveRecord # # blog = Blog.first # - # the association proxy in <tt>blog.posts</tt> has the object in +blog+ as - # <tt>@owner</tt>, the collection of its posts as <tt>@target</tt>, and - # the <tt>@reflection</tt> object represents a <tt>:has_many</tt> macro. + # The collection proxy returned by <tt>blog.posts</tt> is built from a + # <tt>:has_many</tt> <tt>association</tt>, and delegates to a collection + # of posts as the <tt>target</tt>. # - # This class delegates unknown methods to <tt>@target</tt> via - # <tt>method_missing</tt>. + # This class delegates unknown methods to the <tt>association</tt>'s + # relation class via a delegate cache. # - # The <tt>@target</tt> object is not \loaded until needed. For example, + # The <tt>target</tt> result set is not loaded until needed. For example, # # blog.posts.count # |