I just added a patch to lighthouse that adds query attribute methods to associations. This makes associations behave more like any other attribute - class Post < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :comments end Post.new.comments? # => false It adds query attribute methods to has_one (and through), has_many (and through), belongs_to (works with polymorphic) and has_and_belongs_to_many. If that looks interesting / worthwhile, you can plus one it at: http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/ticke... Jeff Dean
on 2008-06-03 06:50