Feedback on adding a pass through select method.

[zeisler]

I am considering this in the next release. I feel a little hesitant because it could lead to some production code bugs. For example User.select(:name).first.email will raise an error in ActiveRecord but it would work in ActiveMocker. I considered making it work the same but the complexity is high because the record/object would need to look up to it's owner and see what methods it can emit, but records can be owned by many collections.

# Warning Use method at own risk!
# Method will pass through to the next chained method. The attributes not selected will be available and ActiveRecord
# would raise 'missing attribute' error, while ActiveMocker will not.
#
#   User.select(:name, :email) => User
#
def self.select(*args)
  self
end

[zeisler]

After thinking about this I am not going to continue with this approach. I am going to have it copy the collection and add a Singleton method to limit what attributes that can be accessed.