Rails core - Jun 2008 - named_scope doesn''t check for critical method names.

I just entered this ticket.

http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets/404-named_scope-bashes-critical-methods

It turns out that in an ActiveRecord model like this

Model << ActiveRecord::Base

   named_scope :public

   private
   def private_method
   end

   public
   def public_method
   end
end

The method public_method will be private because named scope overrides
Ruby''s public method!  Also this can cause additionally hard to debug
failures in metaprogramming, I discovered this when the RSpec stub! method
blew up when it used class_eval to generate a stub method which apparently
caused public to be called internally by Ruby, at which time the named_scope
generated method failed.

See the ticket for details.

I''m not sure what the fix should be, but I think that named_scope
should not
cause public/private, and the like to be clobbered.

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Rick DeNatale

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