Why Active Record relation is not returned in console?

Question

I have finally started upgrading my Rails apps from 2.3.8 to 3.1.0. I was watching RailsCasts (http://railscasts.com/episodes/202-active-record-queries-in-rails-3) about Active Record queries.

When I open up the console (rails c) and do query similar to this:

articles = Article.order("name")

Instead of returning Active Record relations, I see the query executed. What am I doing wrong here?

Rails version: 3.1.0

RVM on 1.9.2

Thank you for your help!

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EDIT: I have added a screenshot from the example.

Answer 1

You're doing everything right. You see query executed because console invokes inspect method on output. Try articles = Article.order("name").class