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Christopher Swasey (endash)

Christopher Swasey (endash)

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Monday, May 19 2008
220 habtm: collection.build doesn't build join associations (unlike collection.cr... was updated in Ruby on Rails
  • Christopher Swasey (endash)
    Christopher Swasey (endash) commented at 6:09 AM

    I am just all kinds of wrong tonight. You can, of course, call #build on a new record just fine. (it's #create that you can't call on a new record)

  • Christopher Swasey (endash)
    Christopher Swasey (endash) commented at 5:27 AM

    Ah... the two records want to validate each other. That results in a nice runaway loop.

    Code could be added to the validation to prevent looping, but I'm wond...
  • Christopher Swasey (endash)
    Christopher Swasey (endash) commented at 4:47 AM

    A quick look through the source seems to suggest that simply adding the existing record to the association collection of the new record would create the desire...
  • Christopher Swasey (endash)
    Christopher Swasey (endash) commented at 4:10 AM

    From what I can tell, this isn't a bug:

    When you #build off an association, the join table is updated when you call #save on the object from which you called ...
  • Christopher Swasey (endash)
    Christopher Swasey (endash) commented at 3:51 AM

    I misread the ticket, and I was wrong about the tests covering this case.

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  • Christopher Swasey (endash)
    Christopher Swasey (endash) commented at 3:38 AM

    Could you clarify what version of rails you are using? Edge rails includes tests which test this functionality, and they all pass.

    Also, #build doesn't save t...