project.documents.reload.first would reload the documents association, then grab the first entry in that array – not trigger another find(id). Like calling #load, but ignoring whether it had already been loaded.
On Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 12:53:31 AM UTC+2, will.bryant wrote: > > So are you saying project.documents.reload.first would redo the query to > find the associated record, or would do a find(id) to reload the current > instance? > > > On 16/07/2015, at 01:08 , DHH <da...@loudthinking.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > I'd prefer to see us move to a single API, and IMO the trade-offs for > #reload alone fits the bill. There's no contract saying that a singular > object from has_one/belongs_to and a collection like has_many has to behave > the same. In fact, I think it'd be strange to think that it should. A > single string and an array of strings do not behave the same. > > So project.documents.reload.first makes perfect sense to me as reloading > the documents collection, then grabbing the first one. > projects.owner.reload.name makes sense to me as reloading the owner > record itself, then fetching the name (if we don't already return self from > Record#reload, we should). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-co...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
