Rails - Apr 2011 - Can Base#before_destroy not be deprecated?

I understand the motivation for deprecating it in actual application
code, but I ask because I''ve been testing my controller''s
destroy
actions in specs as follows:

  describe "POST destroy" do

    it "should redirect to show with an alert on failed destroy" do
      ModelOfThisController.class_eval { def before_destroy; false;
end }
     #rest of code...
    end

    it "should redirect to index with a notice on successful destroy"
do
      ModelOfThisController.class_eval { def before_destroy; true;
end }
     #rest of code...
    end

  end

And i thought it was a pretty clean way to accomplish the goal.  If
you deprecate Base#before_destroy and then remove it in favor of
Base.before_destroy :method, Then what? Won''t I have to do the
equivalent to every method in the before_destroy callback chain?
Seems messier and more brittle.

Or is there a rails way of testing this that I don''t know about?

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