On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 19 July 2010 22:09, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Jul 19, 9:26 pm, Leonardo Mateo <leonardoma...@gmail.com> 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. Thanks a lot, Frederick. Just the words I needed.
> > See http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/ReservedWords for more > words you can't use. Thanks Colin!, great tip! I didn't know this. -- 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 rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
