Rails - Dec 2006 - Override redirect_to in ActionController::Base

Hi,

I''m trying to override the "redirect_to" method in the
ActionController''s Base class but I am running into some trouble. The
method seems to reside in "class Base", "class <<
self". This might be
part of the problem.

First of all I am using one file to specify all my overrides:
"overrides.rb", which I require in my "environment.rb" file.

In any case if I try to override it like so:

class ActionController::Base
  def redirect_to
    # do something
  end
end

It fails since it can''t find the name: ActionController. I solved this
by moving the override into the "application_helper.rb" file. Is there
a way to position my "overrides.rb" file so that it could override
this
method?

When I place the override in my application_helper i can override it
but I can''t call "super". It seems to think there is no super
method
available (this might be caused by the class << self part?).

Currently I solved the problem by copying the code from
"base.rb"''s
redirect_to function into the override like so.

  class ActionController::Base

    def redirect_to(options = {}, *parameters_for_method_reference)
#:doc:

      # do something

      case options
        ...
        ... # much code that should not be here :(
        ...
      end

    end

  end

Needless to say this method sucks (big time). I''d like to know the
correct way to override this method.

Andre Foeken


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