Philip Hallstrom wrote in post #977290: >> So why does this not return an undefined method error? There's no setter >> or getter (attr_accessor) for find_by_name so it has no definition >> anywhere. Second point is find_by_name! is not declared anywhere either >> so we pass the name local variable into it, but it's not defined >> anywhere. Anyone understand what's going on here? Thanks for response. > > ActiveRecord (or Model, not sure which in Rails 3) has some dynamic > finder methods. If "name" is a field for that model then "find_by_name" > gets caught and converted into the appropriate method.
As far as I can tell the dynamic finders are still implemented in ActiveRecord not ActiveModel. I'm not 100% sure of this however. Maybe because other implementers of ActiveModel may need to do their own custom behavior for this (if they want to behavior at all). > See http://railscasts.com/episodes/2-dynamic-find-by-methods for more. > Can't find a quick link to the right section of the docs, but it's > there... There's good docs on this in the Rails guides here: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_querying.html#dynamic-finders -- 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 rubyonrails-talk@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.
