From b3490d82ba87219fbfc00c112184d9b6b06bc908 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Marcos=20Tapaj=C3=B3s?= <tapajos@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:31:29 -0200
Subject: Closes #4208

---
 activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/query_methods.rb | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/query_methods.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/query_methods.rb
index c281bead0d..26246510e6 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/query_methods.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/relation/query_methods.rb
@@ -63,10 +63,11 @@ module ActiveRecord
     #   => [#<Model field: "value", other_field: "value", and_one_more: "value">]
     #
     # Any attributes that do not have fields retrieved by a select
-    # will return `nil` when the getter method for that attribute is used:
+    # will raise a ActiveModel::MissingAttributeError when the getter method for that attribute is used:
     #
     #   >> Model.select(:field).first.other_field
-    #   => nil
+    #   => ActiveModel::MissingAttributeError: missing attribute: other_field
+
     def select(value = Proc.new)
       if block_given?
         to_a.select {|*block_args| value.call(*block_args) }
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