Has_many :through, collection<<(object) and duplicates

Rails
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Hi,

I’m facing a strange behavior in Rails with the has_many association and
the generated collection<<(object, …) method that comes along.

I’ve got an Object model and a Tag model, plus a taggings table to join
the two together.

On Object, I set these associations:

    has_many :taggings, :as => :taggable, :dependent => :destroy
    has_many :tags, :through => :taggings, :uniq => false

(:uniq => false is the default value, I’ve left it to insist on that
point)

Now let’s say I create a new Object and save it.
In an after_save callback on Object, I add a few tags:

    self.tags << Tag.find_or_initialize_by_name("hey")
    self.tags << Tag.find_or_initialize_by_name("ho")
    self.tags << Tag.find_or_initialize_by_name("hey")

So, twice the same tag “hey” and another one “ho”. Nothing fancy.

Once this is done though, I’ll get this:

    puts self.tags.inspect          #  [ "hey", "ho" ]
    puts self.tags(true).inspect  # [ "hey", "ho", "hey" ]

I don’t get why I don’t see all the three tags at first?!!

Because the second line works, I assume my model needs to be reloaded
from DB, but why would it show any tag in the first call then?

Am I missing something?
Thanks for your help!

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Nobody? :\