Ruby on Rails

I'm saying that active_record called on AssociationReflection seems to
just return the class object itself. For example:

Account.reflect_on_association(:users).active_record # => Account

What's the point of that? Can't you just do Account.class?

On Jul 31, 5:42 am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 31, 2012 2:09:41 AM UTC+1, John Merlino wrote:
>
> > Account.reflect_on_association(:users).active_record
> >  => Account(id: integer, name: string, created_at: datetime,
> > updated_at: datetime, ancestry: string, street_address: string, city:
> > string, postal_code: string, state: string, country: string,
> > street_address2: string, account_type_id: integer, client_logo:
> > string, subdomain: string, email: string, phone: string)
>
> > What it returns is not the Account object.
>
> > According to documentation, it "Returns the value of attribute
> > active_record".
>
> >http://rubydoc.info/docs/rails/3.0.0/ActiveRecord/Reflection/MacroRef...
>
> > Well, that's not too informative...
>
> > What's your question (and what the relationship with  your subject line?) ?
>
> Fred

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