On Jul 19, 9:26 pm, Leonardo Mateo <[email protected]> wrote:
> When I do the following in script/console: > s = LineItem.last.section (s.id is 21, as is LineItem.last.section_id as well) > s.target > > I get the Section instance, and the logger shows no query to the > targets table. However, if I do: > s = Section.find(21) > s.target > > I get the right Target instance. > > Even more strange is that if I do: > s = LineItem.last.section > s.target.target (twice the target message) > > I get the right Target instance. > If you do some_line_item.section what you get back isn't a section but an association proxy. If you do anything that actually requires the section object, active record will load it and send the method calls to it. Unfortunately for you the method on association proxy that returns the actual object for the association is called target. Fred > I'm using Rails 2.3.5 and I'm getting this warning, but I'm not sure > if it has something to do with it: > vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/associations/association_proxy. > rb:217: > warning: default `to_a' will be obsolete > > Any clue? > > Thanx a lot in advance. > > -- > Leonardo Mateo. > There's no place like ~ -- 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.
