Rails - Feb 2006 - Extends ActiveRecord from the application ?

Hello,

I just want to create a method that will be available for all models. Is 
it possible ?

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:15:17PM +0100, oo00oo wrote:
> I just want to create a method that will be available for all models. Is 
> it possible ?
I found this page (which has your answer) very very helpful:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/UnderstandingWhatMethodsGoWhere

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Cool.

Well, I don''t want to add manually something to
"ActiveRecord::Base and
include the module"

The other solution "to introduce a subclass of \ActiveRecord:Base and 
implement the methods there." sounds better. But how to do this ? Any idea
?

On Feb 8, 2006, at 2:28 PM, oo00oo wrote:
> Cool.
>
> Well, I don''t want to add manually something to
"ActiveRecord::Base
> and include the module"
Is there a specific reason you don''t want to do this? This is  
probably the more Rubyish way.

# in lib/foo.rb

module Foo
   module Bar
     def my_new_method
     end
   end
end

ActiveRecord::Base.send :include, Foo::Bar


Now my_new_method is a part of ActiveRecord::Base and you can use it  
from any of your models. This way you don''t have to change any of  
your models and you''re using Ruby''s open classes, which makes
you one
of the cool kids :)

If you really need to subclass, you can do that like:

# in app/models/myarsubclass.rb

class MyARSubclass < ActiveRecord::Base
   def my_new_method
   end
end

And then change all your models from:

class SomeModel < ActiveRecord::Base
end

to:

class SomeModel < MyARSubclass
end

But isn''t that a lot more work?

=dudley