hi, i was wondering why the following line of codes were written - i found it from action_controller/test_process.rb file. def self.included(base) # execute the request simulating a specific http method and set/ volley the response %w( get post put delete head ).each do |method| base.class_eval <<-EOV, __FILE__, __LINE__ def #{method}(action, parameters = nil, session = nil, flash = nil) @request.env[''REQUEST_METHOD''] = "#{method.upcase}" if defined?(@request) process(action, parameters, session, flash) end EOV end end i believe, this was trying to make this code more DRY''ed, but this think might be confusion for other sufferer. because this "get, post, put, delete, head" methods are not reflected during RDoc compilation. unless we get some solution like "monitor loaded class behavior and render documentation based upon their meta information" for example - %w( get post put delete head ).each do |method| base.class_eval <<-EOV, __FILE__, __LINE__ desc "delegating process method" def #{method}(action, parameters = nil, session = nil, flash = nil) @request.env[''REQUEST_METHOD''] = "#{method.upcase}" if defined?(@request) process(action, parameters, session, flash) end EOV end i would really love to see this kind of code is broken into the following code - # delegating process method def post(action, parameters = nil, session = nil, flash = nil) @request.env[''REQUEST_METHOD''] = "#{method.upcase}" if defined? (@request) process(action, parameters, session, flash) end # delegating process method def get(action, parameters = nil, session = nil, flash = nil) @request.env[''REQUEST_METHOD''] = "#{method.upcase}" if defined? (@request) process(action, parameters, session, flash) end .... best wishes, --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---