From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-08-09T02:37:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Still missing the boat on class/instance methods

Hi --

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Frederick Cheung wrote:

>
> 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

Also, #detect is not overridden, so you can do:

   obj.some_collection.detect {...}


David

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