Comments on: Active Record loves blocks

By: Carlos Antonio

Carlos Antonio — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:45:00 +0000

Some of these methods are documented inside the Active Record API, like here: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html, but I’m afraid not all possibilites are covered – which leaves us with some source diving to figure out all of them. Of course, since you know that the basic ones are documented, similar methods should just work the same.

Anyway, a pull request (or committing to lifo/docrails) improving the docs where necessary would be more than welcome :). Thanks!

By: jrochkind

jrochkind — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:35:00 +0000

would one find it mentioned in the docs anywhere that these methods take blocks? How’d you figure it out? If I remember in the future “oh yeah, some AR methods take blocks but I forget which ones and how”, is there a way to look this up in the docs, or am I reduced to googling for your blog post?

By: googya

googya — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:23:00 +0000

thanks for sharing! I used the tap method all the time, now can write less code!

By: Vinicius Baggio Fuentes

Vinicius Baggio Fuentes — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:28:00 +0000

Cool, didn’t know that. Thanks Charles!

By: Robbie Clutton

Robbie Clutton — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:40:00 +0000

Here’s how I tested the above: http://pivotallabs.com/users/rclutton/blog/articles/2203-testing-within-an-activerecord-block

By: Carlos Antonio

Carlos Antonio — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:35:00 +0000

In reply to Shemerey. Nice, thanks for sharing.