In Ruby on Rails, why will story.votes return an empty Array object, but story.votes.create will act

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Published on 2010-05-23T05:58:21Z Indexed on 2010/05/23 6:10 UTC
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In Ruby on Rails, say a Story object can "has_many" Vote objects (a story is voted "hot" by many users).

So when we do a

s = Story.find(:first)

s is a Story object, and say

s.votes

returns [] and

s.votes.class

returns Array

So clearly, s.votes is an empty Array object.

At this time, when

s.votes.create

is called, it actually invokes a method of the Vote class? How come an Array class object can invoke a Vote class method?

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