On Friday, September 14, 2012 8:24:53 AM UTC+1, Panayotis Matsinopoulos wrote: > > Hi, > > Since "belongs_to" does not actually reflect (as an English wording) the > real association that one object might have to another, I was thinking > about aliasing it using the following code: > > class ActiveRecord::Base > class << self > alias :refers_to :belongs_to > alias :is_of :belongs_to > alias :has_a :belongs_to > end > end > > Well I think that would work, but personally I wouldn't - I think you're sacrificing readability of the source (people have to know/remember about your extensions) just to make it sound better in english (has_a in particular muddies the water further between has_one & belongs_to). Dave Thomas articulated this better than I could a while ago: http://pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com/pragdave/2008/03/the-language-in.html
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