Rails - Sep 2006 - Trying to override assocation find

Hey Guys,
I''m stumped with something, hoping somebody can help.

Basically, I''m trying to override the default belongs_to accessor.

For example, I have an Event model, that belongs_to a Venue:

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :venue

  ...
end

The venue is not always set, so sometimes "event.venue" returns null.
I want to be able to override "event.venue", and provide my own code
that grabs the venue if it doesn''t exist.  I was thinking I could do
something like:

def venue
  if self.send(:venue) == nil
    # code to fetch the venue and insert into db
  else
    self.send(:venue)
  end
end

Clearly though, this doesn''t work, because self.send(:venue) just calls
itself, and ruby barfs on a stack overflow from the recursion.

The workaround is to create a "get_venue" method, and always call that
instead of "venue," but that seems kind of icky.

Any ideas?

Spencer


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