I''ve been doing stuff like class Book < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :contributions, :dependent => :destroy has_many :contributors, :through => :contributions, :uniq => true has_many :authors, :through => :contributions, :source => :author, :conditions => "contributions.role = ''author''" do def <<(author) Contribution.with_scope(:create => {:role => "author"}) { self.concat author } end end end (which I stole from http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/2006/8/19/magic-join-model-creation) In 2.0 with_scope is protected, to discourage abuse. Is this still a legitimate use of with_scope or is there a better pattern to follow ? Fred --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---