If you don't know what it is, you probably don't need it.

Basically if you have an additional column in the join table, its
value will appear as a magic attribute on the retrieved records.

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Mike Gaffney <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It's funny because the functionality is the only thing omitted from the
> email.
>
> -Mike
>
> Frederick Cheung wrote:
>
> On 28 Dec 2008, at 17:53, Michael Koziarski wrote:
>
>
>
> Frederick Cheung wrote:
>
>
> On 27 Dec 2008, at 15:10, Matt Jones wrote:
>
>
>
> ----
> The method has been deprecated and removed for a while now, though.
>
>
>
> Ah yes, that does make sense.
>
>
> Yeah, the behaviour has been 'frowned upon' for a while.  Prior to the
> has_many through functionality it was a 'neat hack' for things like
> having created_at on some association.
>
> Now it's kinda disgusting :)
>
> Could be worth removing it for 2.3 now as it's just bound to cause
> confusion and people can manually do :select if they want it.
>
>
> Makes sense to me. Anyone desperately holding onto this bit of
> functionality ?
>
> Fred
>
>
>
>
> >
>



-- 
Cheers

Koz

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