How would you know how to call this rails method (select_all) this starting point of it's Rails API

Rails
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Hi,
I’m curious. If you saw the Rails “select_all(sql, name = nil)” method
(rerfer
ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::DatabaseStatements),
and wanted to use it, how would you really know how to use it and call
it
from this API doco?

I know from googling that you can call it from within a model by going
“ActiveRecord::Base.connection.select_all(sql_string)”, but how would I
have
worked this out from the API doco. Within the API page for the method
it
says it’s within Module
“ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::DatabaseStatements”.

Thanks

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On Oct 12, 7:09 am, “Greg H.” [email protected]
wrote:

Hi,
I’m curious. If you saw the Rails “select_all(sql, name = nil)” method
(rerferhttp://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAdapters/Da…),
and wanted to use it, how would you really know how to use it and call
it
from this API doco?

I know from googling that you can call it from within a model by going
“ActiveRecord::Base.connection.select_all(sql_string)”, but how would I have
worked this out from the API doco.

That’s just me, but it seems kind of obvious to me. The second
parameter is a bit more mysterious but if it has a default value
chances are you can just ignore it. the fact that the first parameter
is called sql strongly implies that you should give it some sql.

Fred

Within the API page for the method it
says it’s within Module

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how is it obvious to your Frederick can I ask - how would you know these
methods will end up where they do - I’m guessing (but might be wrong)
you
would have to look through Rails code to find out how it uses/mixes in
the
methods as the framework instantiates itself. If I’m correct here this
would be normal its not obvious to see how you would call the method…
Am I on the right track here?

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Frederick C. <

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On Oct 12, 11:38 pm, “Greg H.” [email protected]
wrote:

how is it obvious to your Frederick can I ask - how would you know these
methods will end up where they do - I’m guessing (but might be wrong) you
would have to look through Rails code to find out how it uses/mixes in the
methods as the framework instantiates itself. If I’m correct here this
would be normal its not obvious to see how you would call the method…
Am I on the right track here?

I suppose there is some prior knowledge or a bit of experimentation to
know that connection adapters are split up into those various
modules.

Fred