This is my first endeavor into a publicly available chunk of code (if you don't count my old JavaWorld articles -- eight years after the fact I still get e-mails about them), so it's probably a good thing that I'm starting with a script that's currently about a dozen lines long ;-) I haven't quite grokked all of the Ruby Forge goodness so bear with me as I try to figure out how to get it all set up and make the code easily available. If you have any experience publishing Rails plug-ins as gems or svn:externals (which is what I'm doing at the moment) please feel free to share your wealth of knowledge. Thanks, enjoy, and please be merciful.
http://rubyforge.org/projects/tedshasmanyhelp/
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This is clever work, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to release it to the wild. If you keep an eye on the Rails commit log you'll see that there was just a change made yesterday to prevent using has_many collection methods on a through association. Your patch now probably breaks the tests in trunk. In the long run, I think you'll have a hard time keeping your patch running - through associations are still a bit of a moving target.
I still think using association extensions is the way to go. If I don't succumb to a post-conference cold today I'm going to try to write something up.
> This is clever work
Thanks :-)
> I'm not sure it's a good idea to release it to the wild.
I intend to keep a relatively low profile as I don't want it to distract me from my real pet project. Only my blog readers know of it, and I don't think there's too many of them, and an even smaller percentage of them have tried the code :-)
> If you keep an eye on the Rails commit log
I do not :-(
> you'll see that there was just a change made yesterday to prevent using has_many collection methods on a through association. Your patch now probably breaks the tests in trunk.
Ah, good to know. Note that my hack here doesn't apply to "through" associations per se; it works on relationships declared without the "through". I'll try to get a more up-to-date example project posted to illustrate that.
> I think you'll have a hard time keeping your patch running
I only intend to keep it running until they offer something better :-) I hope that's real soon now.
> If I don't succumb to a post-conference cold today I'm going to try to write something up.
As always, I look forward to reading it.
Thanks, Josh.
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