I have been reading up on the use case for calling @model.touch and how you can have that bubble by passing , touch: true when setting up your associations in the model. I think I understand everything that is happening there.
What I wanted to ask is that if at no point in your code do you call .touch will having associations that include , touch: true do anything?
I am trying to familiarise myself with a new codebase that has a handful of places that have the association set to allow touch to bubble but there is nowhere in the code that .touch is ever called. I want to try and figure out if these are redundant properties of the association or if something else can hit .touch that would get use out of the bubbling of it.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Relevant Links
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Persistence.html#method-i-touch