Monday, January 6, 2014
On Monday, January 6, 2014 7:53:22 AM UTC, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote:
I came across this code snippet from my reading:
require 'active_record'
class Order < ActiveRecord::Base
end
order = Order.find(1)
...
Looking at: http://api.rubyonrails.org/ and search for find(), find() is
an instance public method. So why can we call Order.find(1) here?
Shouldn't it be Order.new.find(1)?
No, because although it is a public instance method, it's a public instance method of ActiveRecord::Relation, not of ActiveRecord::Base. ActiveRecord delegates the find method (and the other querying type methods such as where, first, all etc.) to an instance of this
Fred
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