# ActiveRecord API documentation

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activerecord-api-documentation/134180>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 8, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activerecord-api-documentation/134180 "2008-04-08T17:16:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/activerecord-api-documentation/134180/1 "2008-04-08T17:16:52Z")

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Can anyone point me to where in the API docs for Active Record one find  
the description of things like “primary\_key\_prefix\_type” and  
“generate\_read\_methods”. I cannot seem to find any core documentation  
reference to these and similar configuration attributes.

It seems from the code of active\_record/base.rb around line 380 that  
these are meant to be documented in ActiveRecord::BAse but that a #nodoc  
directive is preventing this section from being generated. However, I  
cannot tell whether this omission is intentional or not.