how is it obvious to your Frederick can I ask - how would you know these methods will end up where they do - I'm guessing (but might be wrong) you would have to look through Rails code to find out how it uses/mixes in the methods as the framework instantiates itself. If I'm correct here this would be normal its not obvious to see how you would call the method... Am I on the right track here?
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Frederick Cheung < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Oct 12, 7:09 am, "Greg Hauptmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm curious. If you saw the Rails "select_all(sql, name = nil)" method > > (rerferhttp:// > api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAdapters/Da...), > > and wanted to use it, how would you really know how to use it and call > > it > > from this API doco? > > > > I know from googling that you can call it from within a model by going > > "ActiveRecord::Base.connection.select_all(sql_string)", but how would I > have > > worked this out from the API doco. > > That's just me, but it seems kind of obvious to me. The second > parameter is a bit more mysterious but if it has a default value > chances are you can just ignore it. the fact that the first parameter > is called sql strongly implies that you should give it some sql. > > Fred > > > > Within the API page for the method it > > says it's within Module > > > > "ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::DatabaseStatements". > > > > Thanks > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
