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chain

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chain() public

Returns an array of reflections which are involved in this association. Each item in the array corresponds to a table which will be part of the query for this association.

The chain is built by recursively calling #chain on the source reflection and the through reflection. The base case for the recursion is a normal association, which just returns

self: as its #chain.

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# File activerecord/lib/active_record/reflection.rb, line 409
      def chain
        @chain ||= begin
          chain = source_reflection.chain + through_reflection.chain
          chain[0] = self # Use self so we don't lose the information from :source_type
          chain
        end
      end

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