William Fisk wrote in post #977984: > I am reading through some code in active_record/relation/query_methods - > def > build_where (about line 230); and there are a couple of calls to send. > Here's the first one > [@klass.send(:sanitize_sql, other.empty? ? opts : ([opts] + other))] > > and here's the second one > attributes = @klass.send(:expand_hash_conditions_for_aggregates, opts) > > Why do we use send here when we could just call the method directly? > I mean, why is the first call not just > [@klass.sanitize_sql( other.empty? ? opts : ([opts] + other))] > > Puzzled.
The only reason I could see to do this would be to get around an access prohibition. You can use send in this way to call a private or protected method. > > William Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
