rails/rails — pull request #12129 by Empact (2013-09-04 08:30:25+00:00)
Title: Deprecate the delegation of Array bang methods in ActiveRecord::Delegation

The primary means of returning results for Array bang methods is to modify
the array in-place. When you call these methods on a relation, that
array is created, modified, and then thrown away. Only the secondary
return value is exposed to the caller.

Removing this delegation is a straight-forward way to reduce user error
by forcing callers to first explicitly call #to_a in order to expose
the array to be acted on by the bang method.