Class ActiveRecord::Reflection::MacroReflection
In: activerecord/lib/active_record/reflection.rb
Parent: Object

Abstract base class for AggregateReflection and AssociationReflection that describes the interface available for both of those classes. Objects of AggregateReflection and AssociationReflection are returned by the Reflection::ClassMethods.

Methods

==   class_name   derive_class_name   klass   macro   name   new   options  

Attributes

active_record  [R] 

Public Class methods

new(macro, name, options, active_record)

[Source]

# File activerecord/lib/active_record/reflection.rb, line 75
      def initialize(macro, name, options, active_record)
        @macro, @name, @options, @active_record = macro, name, options, active_record
      end

Public Instance methods

==(other_aggregation)

[Source]

# File activerecord/lib/active_record/reflection.rb, line 107
      def ==(other_aggregation)
        name == other_aggregation.name && other_aggregation.options && active_record == other_aggregation.active_record
      end
class_name()

[Source]

# File activerecord/lib/active_record/reflection.rb, line 103
      def class_name
        @class_name ||= options[:class_name] || derive_class_name
      end
klass()

Returns the class for the macro, so "composed_of :balance, :class_name => ‘Money’" returns the Money class and "has_many :clients" returns the Client class.

[Source]

# File activerecord/lib/active_record/reflection.rb, line 99
      def klass
        @klass ||= class_name.constantize
      end
macro()

Returns the name of the macro, so it would return :composed_of for "composed_of :balance, :class_name => ‘Money’" or :has_many for "has_many :clients".

[Source]

# File activerecord/lib/active_record/reflection.rb, line 87
      def macro
        @macro
      end
name()

Returns the name of the macro, so it would return :balance for "composed_of :balance, :class_name => ‘Money’" or :clients for "has_many :clients".

[Source]

# File activerecord/lib/active_record/reflection.rb, line 81
      def name
        @name
      end
options()

Returns the hash of options used for the macro, so it would return { :class_name => "Money" } for "composed_of :balance, :class_name => ‘Money’" or {} for "has_many :clients".

[Source]

# File activerecord/lib/active_record/reflection.rb, line 93
      def options
        @options
      end

Private Instance methods

derive_class_name()

[Source]

# File activerecord/lib/active_record/reflection.rb, line 112
        def derive_class_name
          name.to_s.camelize
        end

[Validate]