From 9ac02777e7fc81369e5a837124aff51a7ca03d2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Heinemeier Hansson Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 06:59:08 +0000 Subject: Clarified intentions of validates_associated #870 git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@1602 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de --- activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'activerecord/lib/active_record') diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb index f455b97e0a..fb207ef4b2 100755 --- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb +++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/validations.rb @@ -572,7 +572,10 @@ module ActiveRecord # validates_associated :book # end # - # this would specify a circular dependency and cause infinite recursion. The Rails team recommends against this practice. + # ...this would specify a circular dependency and cause infinite recursion. + # + # NOTE: This validation will not fail if the association hasn't been assigned. If you want to ensure that the association + # is both present and guaranteed to be valid, you also need to use validates_presence_of. # # Configuration options: # * on Specifies when this validation is active (default is :save, other options :create, :update) -- cgit v1.2.3