Michael Koziarski wrote: > On 10/2/06, MacProBob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've been playing around with nested models and ran across the method > > named class_name in Base. While looking at how to modify this to > > support nested models, I figured out that it doesn't appear to be used > > at all in the code base. > > > > Does this method still have a purpose? In what situation would you want > > to determine a class_name from a table name? > > > > I looked through trac but it existed in the oldest version in trac so i > > couldn't track down it use. > > When you remove it, all the tests (except the obvious one) still pass, > so I'm stumped. It's :nodoc:'d so it's never been an advertised > feature. Unless someone else chimes in, I can't see why we wouldn't > just remove it...
The Magic Models uses it (http://magicmodels.rubyforge.org). It ensures that all the conventions of table prefixes, pluralisation etc are supported when dynamically creating ActiveRecords based on existing tables. If you do remove it, then I will add it back into the MM's explicitly. Nic --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
