I know we haven't announced it publicly prior to this answer, but we've decided to deprecate shorthand support, and remove it in the upcoming MR3 release.
Shorthand support is an interesting idea and feature, but it is not something we want to maintain. We would rather focus our efforts on getting the data centric part of MagicalRecord to be as solid and reusable as possible.
That said, you're certainly welcome to fix it yourself and submit a patch to the older branch of MagicalRecord. Some things to look at are:
- Make sure the shorthand selectors are included, and add new ones if they are not present
- Make sure you've used the MagicalRecord class once prior to this call. All the shorthand support is initialized in the class initializer method.
- If you're using Cocoapods, you may need to update your pod spec reference to 'MagicalRecord/Shorthand'