Hi,
Haven't been able to find this raised before but I'm sure it must have been. When assigning an object to a belongs_to association I would like it to call the *association*_id= method instead of directly updating the attributes array. This is because I want to modify the behaviour when assigning a particular object without writing separate methods for whether it's just an ID being assigned or a full object.
Example: a = Author.find(2) b = Book.new b.author = a # Should call b.author_id=(val)
Is there already a simple way to achieve this? (without having to run validation)
Changing it would be a one-line patch, but can anyone think of problems this would introduce?
Thanks, Andrew