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Diffstat (limited to 'activerecord')
| -rw-r--r-- | activerecord/CHANGELOG | 2 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb | 6 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG b/activerecord/CHANGELOG index 00cac2f0ac..ad7d0a668d 100644 --- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG +++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ *SVN* +* Docs: warn that associations names shouldn't be reserved words. #4378 [murphy@cYcnus.de, Josh Susser] + * Sanitize Base#inspect. #8392 [Nik Wakelin] * Replace the transaction {|transaction|..} semantics with a new Exception ActiveRecord::Rollback. [Koz] diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb index f7c8e1d22f..56fe19a1db 100755 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations.rb @@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ module ActiveRecord # * <tt>Project#categories.empty?, Project#categories.size, Project#categories, Project#categories<<(category1),</tt> # <tt>Project#categories.delete(category1)</tt> # + # === A word of warning + # + # Don't create associations that have the same name as instance methods of ActiveRecord::Base. Since the association + # adds a method with that name to its model, it will override the inherited method and break things. + # For instance, #attributes and #connection would be bad choices for association names. + # # == Example # # link:files/examples/associations.png |