Rails - Dec 2005 - Is it possible to do something before/after a method in a model and then do the default stuff?

Hi,

I don''t know if the subject makes sense, but what I want is to do 
certain actions before a record is created, deleted, or updated, and 
some other after a successful insert/delete/update.

like maybe:

class School < ActiveRecord::Base
    def new
       do something
       call the default code that handles this function in Rails
       if successful, do more stuff
    end
end

I know I can do it in the controller, that''s pretty easy, but the tasks
I want to do involve updating some records on the database, so the code 
should belong in the model, I think.

I''m sure this must be possible, but how?

Thanks in advance!

Ivan V.

Iván Vega Rivera wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don''t know if the subject makes sense, but what I want is to do 
> certain actions before a record is created, deleted, or updated, and 
> some other after a successful insert/delete/update.
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Callbacks.html