Ruby on Rails

This isn't a question -- it's just me being astonished by yet another
thing in Rails that Just Works. Here it is:
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class Wizard < ActiveRecord::Base
before_create :create_deferrables
has_one :weather_loader, :as => :owner, :dependent => :destroy

def create_deferrables
self.create_weather_loader
end

end

class WeatherLoader < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :owner, :polymorphic => true
end
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I'd always assumed the above would NOT work because
Wizard#create_weather_loader gets called before the wizard had been
assigned an id, sohow would WeatherLoader#owner_id get set?

And yet the architecture of relations is smart enough to know that when
it assigns an ID to the wizard that it needs to update the
weather_loader as well. (And since it's a polymorphic association, it
automagically sets WeatherLoader#owner_type as well.)

IMHO, that's chunky-bacon awesomeness. Thank you, Rails!

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