Rails - Dec 2005 - Can you override a private rails method?

I''m trying to override the behavior of find_with_associations for an
acts_as
plugin.

Not having much luck as it''s a private method, so I can''t
alias it, and my
method
of the same name is ignored.

Is this even possible?

joshua


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In the ruby example below, it looks like you can override a private
function. Can you post code?

-Peter


class A
  private
  def foo
     "foo"
  end
end

class A
  private
  def foo
     "foofoo"
  end

  public
  def bar
    foo
  end
end

a = A.new
puts a.bar  # outputs "foofoo"


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In the process of grabbing my code to post, I solved it!!!

I had to include the methods straight into ActiveRecord::Base not into
ActiveRecord::Associations

eg
ActiveRecord::Base.send   :include,
Democracy::Acts::Multilingual::Associations


I was worried that it just wasn''t possible, because doing something as
simple as this doesn''t work

module ActiveRecord
    module Associations
        private
        def association_join(*args)
            breakpoint
            super
        end
    end
end
>
>

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