alias belongs_to to has_one

[jvans1]

It seems like the most intuitive behavior for working with associations is to have belongs_to work since that's how we declare these relationships in rails

[AndyObtiva]

My understanding is that within the domain of serialization, there is only has_many and has_one to represent nested models.

I do understand what you mean though. I ran into the same issue before switching to has_one and realizing that it is more semantically correct.

But, perhaps it would not hurt to alias has_one as belongs_to. Can anyone think of negatives to this?

[jvans1]

Yea it just seems like it would be the expected behavior. I can't think of any downsides to it.

[steveklabnik]

I'm not interested in changing the DSL in 0.9. We can talk about it for 0.10, though. I'm not sure what the original motivation is for leaving this out, I'd like to talk to @wycats about it.