Are has_and_belongs_to_many reflections gone in Rails 4.1.0?

Question

I don't understand why they have changed this behavior so heavily and how to get the old results back. Some of my abstract code depends on the reflections method.

In 4.0.4 this code returned something you would expect:

User.reflections.each_pair { |a, x| puts [a, x.macro].join(' => ') }

games => has_many
posts => has_many
players => has_many
teams => has_and_belongs_to_many
roles => has_and_belongs_to_many

In 4.1.0 the same database and model returns this:

User.reflections.each_pair { |a, x| puts [a, x.macro].join(' => ') }

games => has_many
posts => has_many
players => has_many
users_teams => has_many
teams => has_many
users_roles => has_many
roles => has_many

User model:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_authentic

  has_many :games
  has_many :posts
  has_many :players
  has_and_belongs_to_many :teams
  has_and_belongs_to_many :roles

end  

Answer 1

This unexpected behavior happened in rails 4.1.0 and 4.1.1, since 4.1.2 reflections is public api that returns values you would expect.

More on my problem can be found in the github issue i've opend