From cef17cd705c3529139fa1fd5bbc0e9c6ae289ba4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ryan Bigg Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:44:12 +1000 Subject: Query guide: specify what type of objects scopes return --- railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'railties/guides') diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile index b315a2b107..5264477e1c 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/active_record_querying.textile @@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ Even though Active Record lets you specify conditions on the eager loaded associ h3. Scopes -Scoping allows you to specify commonly-used ARel queries which can be referenced as method calls on the association objects or models. With these scopes, you can use every method previously covered such as +where+, +joins+ and +includes+. +Scoping allows you to specify commonly-used ARel queries which can be referenced as method calls on the association objects or models. With these scopes, you can use every method previously covered such as +where+, +joins+ and +includes+. All scope methods will return an +ActiveRecord::Relation+ object which will allow for further methods (such as other scopes) to be called on it. To define a simple scope, we use the +scope+ method inside the class, passing the ARel query that we'd like run when this scope is called: -- cgit v1.2.3