Proper way to prevent ActiveRecord::ReadOnlyRecord?

Question

I\'m currently using Rails 2.3.9. I understand that specifying the :joins option in a query without an explicit :select automatically makes any re

Answer 1

I ran across this same issue and was not comfortable using :readonly => false

As a result I did an explicit select namely :select => 'users.*' and felt that it seemed like less of a hack.

You could consider doing the following:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_one :subscription

  named_scope :active, :select => 'users.*', :conditions => { :subscriptions => { :status => 'active' } }, :joins => :subscription
end