Add Autosave False On ActiveRecord Associations as a rails til.

Author: jbranchaud

README.md

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 - [Attribute Getter without the Recursion](rails/attribute-getter-without-the-recursion.md)
 - [Attribute Was](rails/attribute-was.md)
+- [Autosave False On ActiveRecord Associations](rails/autosave-false-on-activerecord-associations.md)
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rails/autosave-false-on-activerecord-associations.md

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+# Autosave False On ActiveRecord Associations
+
+A relationship between two ActiveRecord models can be established with a
+`has_one` or `has_many` association. This relationship has some
+implications. By default, saving a record will also save the associated
+records that have since been built. Consider this example of users that have
+many posts (`has_many posts`).
+
+```ruby
+> u = User.first
+#=> #<User ...>
+> u.posts
+#=> []
+> u.posts.build(title: "Some Title", content: "This is a post")
+#=> #<Post ...>
+> u.save
+#=> true
+> u.posts(reload: true)
+#=> [#<Post ...>]
+```
+
+When the user is saved, the associated post that was built for that user
+also gets saved to the database.
+
+If the association is instead defined with the `autosave` option set to
+false, then saving a record will not cause associated records to also be
+saved. The associated records will need to be saved explicitly. Consider the
+same example from above, but with `has_many posts, autosave: false`.
+
+```ruby
+> u = User.first
+#=> #<User ...>
+> u.posts
+#=> []
+> u.posts.build(title: "Some Title", content: "This is a post")
+#=> #<Post ...>
+> u.save
+#=> true
+> u.posts(reload: true)
+#=> []
+```
+
+The post wasn't saved with the user and it wasn't saved explicitly, so it
+isn't persisted to the database.