clone() — ActiveRecord::Base — Ruby on Rails 2.2.3

clone()

Returns a clone of the record that hasn’t been assigned an id yet and is treated as a new record. Note that this is a “shallow” clone: it copies the object’s attributes only, not its associations. The extent of a “deep” clone is application-specific and is therefore left to the application to implement according to its need.

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# File activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb, line 2437
      def clone
        attrs = clone_attributes(:read_attribute_before_type_cast)
        attrs.delete(self.class.primary_key)
        record = self.class.new
        record.send :instance_variable_set, '@attributes', attrs
        record
      end

Defined in activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb line 2437 · View on GitHub · Improve this page · Find usages on GitHub

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