From: Frederick Cheung <frederick.cheung@...>
Date: 2008-08-09T00:45:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Still missing the boat on class/instance methods


On 8 Aug 2008, at 15:42, Jeff wrote:

> On Aug 5, 5:30 am, "David A. Black" <dbl...@rubypal.com> wrote:
>> ActiveRecord overrides #find for its association collections, so  
>> you'd
>> have to use #detect, or a :conditions clause on the find.
>
> It's one of the few things that make me cringe about Rails - some
> native Ruby things are changed when they shouldn't be.
>

The association proxy isn't an Array, so an association proxy having  
it's own find is no different that one of your classes implemeneting a  
[] method

> I wonder if I could submit a patch to make #find, when given only a
> block, fall back to "normal" Ruby usage.

One way out is some_activerecord_object.some_collection.to_a.find

Fred
>
>
> I shall investigate :-)
>
> Jeff
>
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>
>> David
>>
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