I was wondering if it would make sense to return self from the readonly! method of an ActiveRecord model? I found myself wanting to create a list of read only instances and it seemed unnecessarily verbose to do model = Model.new(attrs) model.readonly! model for each of them instead of just Model.new(attrs).readonly! I've got the super small patch prepared, but I wanted to run it by some folks before adding it to the rather large list of pull requests! Thanks, -David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.