Rails - Nov 2007 - aliases in ROR (for an instance)

hi,

following situation:

  class Item < ActiveRecord::Base
    alias :newmeth :oldmeth
  end

if i do

Item.newmeth # it returns :oldmeth

-- this is neat behavior, and it works great.
but i was hoping to find out how to change the instance method''s
aliases; if possible. ie

(
@item.instance_methods # method1
basically, i can do:
@item.method1 # returns whatever
)

and i want to rename/alias method1 to method_one, so that eventually i
will be able to do

@item.method_one # returns @item.method1


...is there any kind of command to change the instance_methods''
aliases?
something like

alias_instance_method :method_one :method1
thx

s
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Shai :
> and i want to rename/alias method1 to method_one, so that
> eventually i will be able to do
>
> @item.method_one # returns @item.method1
>
>
> ...is there any kind of command to change the instance_methods''
> aliases? something like
>
> alias_instance_method :method_one :method1
You can use the class singleton of @item object :

class << @item
  alias :method_one :method1
end

then you can do @item.method_one

   -- Jean-François.

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> class << @item
>   alias :method_one :method1
> end
> 
> then you can do @item.method_one
> 
>    -- Jean-Fran�ois.
mmm .. thanks :) didn''t realize this was possible. where do i put this?
in the model item.rb file? or .. ?

... i managed to get around the problem, arguably ugly i must admit, by 
doing

class Item

def method_one
  method1
end

end

#now i can do @item.method_one and it returns method1

thanks for the advice though
:)
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