Rails - Apr 2010 - use ActiveSupport::Deprecation myself?

So I have a plugin that is shared by many people.  I''d really like a
good way to mark certain methods as ''deprecated'', that will be
disappearing in a future version.

I noticed that ActiveSupport::Deprecation seems to already include such
things, and is used internally for marking Rails code as deprecated.

But would it make sense to use this myself?  It seems to be lacking any
public rdoc at all, which makes me a bit nervous, maybe I shoudln''t use
it? But seems like it would work.

class MyOwn
   include ActiveSupport::Deprecation

   deprecate(:method_name)

...
end


Good idea? Horrible idea?  Is there a better idea to be able to mark
deprecated stuff in my own classes?
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On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Jonathan Rochkind
<lists-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> So I have a plugin that is shared by many people.  I''d really like
a
> good way to mark certain methods as ''deprecated'', that
will be
> disappearing in a future version.
>
> I noticed that ActiveSupport::Deprecation seems to already include such
> things, and is used internally for marking Rails code as deprecated.
>
> But would it make sense to use this myself?  It seems to be lacking any
> public rdoc at all, which makes me a bit nervous, maybe I
shoudln''t use
> it? But seems like it would work.
>
> class MyOwn
>   include ActiveSupport::Deprecation
>
>   deprecate(:method_name)
>
> ...
> end
>
>
> Good idea? Horrible idea?  Is there a better idea to be able to mark
> deprecated stuff in my own classes?
Great idea!

You don''t need to mix in the module, either: the deprecate method is
already available in your classes.

jeremy

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