For purposes of maintenance and data cleanup, sometimes it is helpful to determine if you have orphaned records in your AR backing store.
Assuming that an AR::Base descendant has one or more belongs_to associations, I propose the addition of built-in "<association_name>_orphaned" scopes that would return the set of records where the belongs_to association record doesn't exist. Using association introspection, this would be fairly straightforward. However, I'm not certain about the idea of having a "built-in" scope, as I'm not sure if any even exist at this point. Is this better implemented in a standalone gem that would then add these scopes? Many thanks, Wes -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
