Rails - Nov 2006 - Rails Plugins - Extending Rails Beyond the Core Question

The book says "You can also use init.rb to ensure that this module is mixed
in to all your controllers"

vendor/plugins/breadcrumbs/init.rb
ActionController::Base.send :include, Breadcrumbs

What does the Base.send mean? TIA.


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On 11/13/06, Bala Paranj
<bcparanj-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> The book says "You can also use init.rb to ensure that this module is
mixed
> in to all your controllers"
>
> vendor/plugins/breadcrumbs/init.rb
> ActionController::Base.send :include, Breadcrumbs
ActionController::Base is the base controller class.  send simply
sends a message, and in this case it''s sending the include message
with the parameter Breadcrumbs.

It''s the same as if you did

class ActionController::Base
  include Breadcrumbs
end

You have to use send or the class form because include is a private method.

Pat

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