On 15 November 2012 17:56, Jordon Bedwell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: >> I was trying to ask the general question, that if one has a scope and >> a class method that perform exactly the same operation (such as the >> example in this thread), so >> >> scope :today_reservations, lambda { where("reserved_from > ? and >> reserved_to <= ?", Date.today, Date.today ) } >> >> and >> >> self.today_reservations >> where("reserved_from > ? and reserved_to <= ?", Date.today, Date.today ) } >> end >> >> Is there actually any difference between the two, or is the former >> just a way of defining the latter in a railsy sort of way? > > From what I remember briefly while playing (since I have always > preferred the latter) scope is like attr_writer and attr_reader in > that it's all the same in the end one just gives you more control over > the flow, the other does it all for you but in the end, the result is > exactly the same.
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