"warning: default 'to_a' will be obsolete" from method_missing in association_proxy

Fix their code to say what? They are not using Object#to_a, they are using [*val].

And what should I request that they do differently? Rails is throwing a warning about to_a, what is the solution?

FYI, it was filed 8 months ago, with no response: http://github.com/zdennis/ar-extensions/issues#issue/6

It's not clear what other code should do here. Rails should remove the warning, or make some indication about alternatives.

Well, we'll see. The developer obvious has not done anything with the extension for some time.

The to_a function is (maybe, eventually) being obsoleted by Ruby -- I don't see why Rails needs to try to enforce that by spamming my logs.

Can you try applying that patch manually to see if it fixes the issue?

Greg,

to_a is not obsoleted by Ruby, that's not what the warning says. As I said that warning can't just be removed because you don't want your logs spammed because of code in another gem. There's a reason this warning is thrown.

Yes, to_a is called implicitly here, but that doesn't matter. Rails doesn't know better.

What is the reason the warning is thrown? It is not informative to me.

The warning is thrown because calling to_a on an instance of AssociationProxy will be obsolete just like the warning says. Once again: There's a perfectly good technical reason this warning is thrown, and it's there to remind people to fix there code - removing a warning doesn't fix the cause of the warning.

Please do close this ticket.

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Can you suggest how the issue should be solved? The code which generates this error is not even using to_a, it's using the splat operator.