Cloning AR doesn't clone associations?

Rails
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Hi,

Am I right in thinking that cloning an ActiveRecord does not close its
associations? If so, any particluar reason for this?

Jeroen

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On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:26 PM, Jeroen H. wrote:

Am I right in thinking that cloning an ActiveRecord does not close
its associations? If so, any particluar reason for this?

Because how deep you go in the object graph is application-specific.

jeremy
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Jeremy K. wrote:

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On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:26 PM, Jeroen H. wrote:

Am I right in thinking that cloning an ActiveRecord does not close
its associations? If so, any particluar reason for this?

Because how deep you go in the object graph is application-specific.

Okay. Makes sense. Perhaps this can be added to the API docs.

Thanks for your help!

Jeroen

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On Nov 10, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Jeroen H. wrote:

Jeremy K. wrote:

On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:26 PM, Jeroen H. wrote:

Am I right in thinking that cloning an ActiveRecord does not
close its associations? If so, any particluar reason for this?

Because how deep you go in the object graph is application-specific.

Okay. Makes sense. Perhaps this can be added to the API docs.

Sure: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/changeset/2975

jeremy
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