Is this a HAS_ONE bug?

Let’s say I have:

A BELONGS_TO B
B HAS_ONE A (with :dependent=>:nullify)

But this association does not need to exist. In other words, I could
have many A’s and B’s that are not associated in this manner.

Presently, if I try to delete “B”:

  1. If B is associated to an “A”, this works fine and A.my_B is
    nullified.
  2. If B is NOT associated, I get an error saying it is trying to call
    “nil.update_attribute” (presumably trying to set the my_B to nil.)

Seems to me this is a bug – if my_B is already nil, nothing should
happen; Rails should just happily delete B.

Jake

Jake J. wrote:

Let’s say I have:

A BELONGS_TO B
B HAS_ONE A (with :dependent=>:nullify)

But this association does not need to exist. In other words, I could
have many A’s and B’s that are not associated in this manner.

Presently, if I try to delete “B”:

  1. If B is associated to an “A”, this works fine and A.my_B is
    nullified.
  2. If B is NOT associated, I get an error saying it is trying to call
    “nil.update_attribute” (presumably trying to set the my_B to nil.)

Seems to me this is a bug – if my_B is already nil, nothing should
happen; Rails should just happily delete B.

Jake

Actually, I just noticed that HAS_ONE doesn’t actually have a ‘nullify’
option for ‘dependent’ and that not specifying any option seems to do
what I want. Interesting.