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…an awesome example

some minor documentation changes

activemodel/lib/active_model/serialization.rb

@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ module ActiveModel
   #   person.serializable_hash   # => {"name"=>"Bob"}
   #   person.to_json             # => "{\"name\":\"Bob\"}"
   #   person.to_xml              # => "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<serial-person...
+  #
+  # Valid options are <tt>:only</tt>, <tt>:except</tt> and <tt>:methods</tt> .  
   module Serialization
     def serializable_hash(options = nil)
       options ||= {}

activesupport/lib/active_support/callbacks.rb

@@ -568,7 +568,9 @@ def reset_callbacks(symbol)
       #
       # would trigger <tt>Audit#before_save</tt> instead. That's constructed by calling
       # <tt>"#{kind}_#{name}"</tt> on the given instance. In this case "kind" is "before" and
-      # "name" is "save".
+      # "name" is "save". In this context treat ":kind" and ":name" as special thing where
+      # ":kind" refers to "callback type(before/after)" and ":name" refers to the method on 
+      # which callbacks are being defined.
       #
       # A declaration like
       #

activesupport/lib/active_support/concern.rb

@@ -1,3 +1,38 @@
+# A typical module looks like this
+#
+#   module M
+#     def self.included(base)
+#       base.send(:extend, ClassMethods)
+#       base.send(:include, InstanceMethods)
+#       scope :foo, :conditions => {:created_at => nil}
+#     end
+#
+#     module ClassMethods
+#       def cm; puts 'I am class method'; end
+#     end
+#
+#     module InstanceMethods
+#       def im; puts 'I am instance method'; end
+#     end
+#   end
+#
+# By using <tt>ActiveSupport::Concern</tt> above module could be written as:
+#
+#   module M
+#     extend ActiveSupport::Concern
+#
+#    included do 
+#       scope :foo, :conditions => {:created_at => nil}
+#     end
+#
+#     module ClassMethods
+#       def cm; puts 'I am class method'; end
+#     end
+#
+#     module InstanceMethods
+#       def im; puts 'I am instance method'; end
+#     end
+#   end
 module ActiveSupport
   module Concern
     def self.extended(base)