Improve documentation.

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Pratik Naik
2008-03-26 12:27:52 +00:00
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*SVN*
* Improve documentation. [Radar, Jan De Poorter, chuyeow, xaviershay, danger, miloops, Xavier Noria, Sunny Ripert]
* Fixed that ActiveRecord#Base.find_or_create/initialize would not honor attr_protected/accessible when used with a hash #11422 [miloops]
* Added ActiveRecord#Base.all/first/last as aliases for find(:all/:first/:last) #11413 [nkallen, thechrisoshow]

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# Some times you don't care about the content of the fixtures as much as you care about the volume. In these cases, you can
# mix ERb in with your YAML or CSV fixtures to create a bunch of fixtures for load testing, like:
#
# <% for i in 1..1000 %>
# fix_<%= i %>:
# id: <%= i %>
# name: guy_<%= 1 %>
# <% end %>
# <% for i in 1..1000 %>
# fix_<%= i %>:
# id: <%= i %>
# name: guy_<%= 1 %>
# <% end %>
#
# This will create 1000 very simple YAML fixtures.
#

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#
# The Rails package has several tools to help create and apply migrations.
#
# To generate a new migration, use <tt>script/generate migration MyNewMigration</tt>
# To generate a new migration, you can use
# script/generate migration MyNewMigration
#
# where MyNewMigration is the name of your migration. The generator will
# create a file <tt>nnn_my_new_migration.rb</tt> in the <tt>db/migrate/</tt>
# create an empty migration file <tt>nnn_my_new_migration.rb</tt> in the <tt>db/migrate/</tt>
# directory where <tt>nnn</tt> is the next largest migration number.
#
# You may then edit the <tt>self.up</tt> and <tt>self.down</tt> methods of
# MyNewMigration.
#
# There is a special syntactic shortcut to generate migrations that add fields to a table.
# script/generate migration add_fieldname_to_tablename fieldname:string
#
# This will generate the file <tt>nnn_add_fieldname_to_tablename</tt>, which will look like this:
# class AddFieldnameToTablename < ActiveRecord::Migration
# def self.up
# add_column :tablenames, :fieldname, :string
# end
#
# def self.down
# remove_column :tablenames, :fieldname
# end
# end
#
# To run migrations against the currently configured database, use
# <tt>rake db:migrate</tt>. This will update the database by running all of the
# pending migrations, creating the <tt>schema_info</tt> table if missing.

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@@ -8,37 +8,32 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
#
# konata = User.find(1)
# konata.to_json
#
# {"id": 1, "name": "Konata Izumi", "age": 16,
# "created_at": "2006/08/01", "awesome": true}
# # => {"id": 1, "name": "Konata Izumi", "age": 16,
# "created_at": "2006/08/01", "awesome": true}
#
# The :only and :except options can be used to limit the attributes
# included, and work similar to the #attributes method. For example:
#
# konata.to_json(:only => [ :id, :name ])
#
# {"id": 1, "name": "Konata Izumi"}
# # => {"id": 1, "name": "Konata Izumi"}
#
# konata.to_json(:except => [ :id, :created_at, :age ])
#
# {"name": "Konata Izumi", "awesome": true}
# # => {"name": "Konata Izumi", "awesome": true}
#
# To include any methods on the model, use :methods.
#
# konata.to_json(:methods => :permalink)
#
# {"id": 1, "name": "Konata Izumi", "age": 16,
# "created_at": "2006/08/01", "awesome": true,
# "permalink": "1-konata-izumi"}
# # => {"id": 1, "name": "Konata Izumi", "age": 16,
# "created_at": "2006/08/01", "awesome": true,
# "permalink": "1-konata-izumi"}
#
# To include associations, use :include.
#
# konata.to_json(:include => :posts)
#
# {"id": 1, "name": "Konata Izumi", "age": 16,
# "created_at": "2006/08/01", "awesome": true,
# "posts": [{"id": 1, "author_id": 1, "title": "Welcome to the weblog"},
# {"id": 2, author_id: 1, "title": "So I was thinking"}]}
# # => {"id": 1, "name": "Konata Izumi", "age": 16,
# "created_at": "2006/08/01", "awesome": true,
# "posts": [{"id": 1, "author_id": 1, "title": "Welcome to the weblog"},
# {"id": 2, author_id: 1, "title": "So I was thinking"}]}
#
# 2nd level and higher order associations work as well:
#
@@ -46,13 +41,12 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
# :include => { :comments => {
# :only => :body } },
# :only => :title } })
#
# {"id": 1, "name": "Konata Izumi", "age": 16,
# "created_at": "2006/08/01", "awesome": true,
# "posts": [{"comments": [{"body": "1st post!"}, {"body": "Second!"}],
# "title": "Welcome to the weblog"},
# {"comments": [{"body": "Don't think too hard"}],
# "title": "So I was thinking"}]}
# # => {"id": 1, "name": "Konata Izumi", "age": 16,
# "created_at": "2006/08/01", "awesome": true,
# "posts": [{"comments": [{"body": "1st post!"}, {"body": "Second!"}],
# "title": "Welcome to the weblog"},
# {"comments": [{"body": "Don't think too hard"}],
# "title": "So I was thinking"}]}
def to_json(options = {})
JsonSerializer.new(self, options).to_s
end

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module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
module Serialization
# Builds an XML document to represent the model. Some configuration is
# available through +options+, however more complicated cases should
# override ActiveRecord's to_xml.
# Builds an XML document to represent the model. Some configuration is
# available through +options+. However more complicated cases should
# override ActiveRecord's to_xml method.
#
# By default the generated XML document will include the processing
# instruction and all object's attributes. For example:
# instruction and all the object's attributes. For example:
#
# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
# <topic>
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
# </topic>
#
# This behavior can be controlled with :only, :except,
# :skip_instruct, :skip_types and :dasherize. The :only and
# :skip_instruct, :skip_types and :dasherize. The :only and
# :except options are the same as for the #attributes method.
# The default is to dasherize all column names, to disable this,
# set :dasherize to false. To not have the column type included
# set :dasherize to false. To not have the column type included
# in the XML output, set :skip_types to true.
#
# For instance:
@@ -68,6 +68,36 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
# </account>
# </firm>
#
# To include deeper levels of associations pass a hash like this:
#
# firm.to_xml :include => {:account => {}, :clients => {:include => :address}}
# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
# <firm>
# <id type="integer">1</id>
# <rating type="integer">1</rating>
# <name>37signals</name>
# <clients type="array">
# <client>
# <rating type="integer">1</rating>
# <name>Summit</name>
# <address>
# ...
# </address>
# </client>
# <client>
# <rating type="integer">1</rating>
# <name>Microsoft</name>
# <address>
# ...
# </address>
# </client>
# </clients>
# <account>
# <id type="integer">1</id>
# <credit-limit type="integer">50</credit-limit>
# </account>
# </firm>
#
# To include any methods on the object(s) being called use :methods
#
# firm.to_xml :methods => [ :calculated_earnings, :real_earnings ]
@@ -78,7 +108,7 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
# <real-earnings>5</real-earnings>
# </firm>
#
# To call any Proc's on the object(s) use :procs. The Proc's
# To call any Procs on the object(s) use :procs. The Procs
# are passed a modified version of the options hash that was
# given to #to_xml.
#
@@ -90,7 +120,7 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
# <abc>def</abc>
# </firm>
#
# Alternatively, you can also just yield the builder object as part of the to_xml call:
# Alternatively, you can yield the builder object as part of the to_xml call:
#
# firm.to_xml do |xml|
# xml.creator do
@@ -108,7 +138,7 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
# </firm>
#
# You can override the to_xml method in your ActiveRecord::Base
# subclasses if you need to. The general form of doing this is
# subclasses if you need to. The general form of doing this is:
#
# class IHaveMyOwnXML < ActiveRecord::Base
# def to_xml(options = {})
@@ -155,13 +185,6 @@ module ActiveRecord #:nodoc:
!options.has_key?(:dasherize) || options[:dasherize]
end
# To replicate the behavior in ActiveRecord#attributes,
# :except takes precedence over :only. If :only is not set
# for a N level model but is set for the N+1 level models,
# then because :except is set to a default value, the second
# level model can have both :except and :only set. So if
# :only is set, always delete :except.
def serializable_attributes
serializable_attribute_names.collect { |name| Attribute.new(name, @record) }
end
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# There is a significant speed improvement if the value
# does not need to be escaped, as #tag! escapes all values
# to ensure that valid XML is generated. For known binary
# to ensure that valid XML is generated. For known binary
# values, it is at least an order of magnitude faster to
# Base64 encode binary values and directly put them in the
# output XML than to pass the original value or the Base64

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# Timestamping can be turned off by setting
# <tt>ActiveRecord::Base.record_timestamps = false</tt>
#
# Timestamps are in the local timezone by default but can use UTC by setting
# Timestamps are in the local timezone by default but you can use UTC by setting
# <tt>ActiveRecord::Base.default_timezone = :utc</tt>
module Timestamp
def self.included(base) #:nodoc: