Rails - Dec 2011 - adding methods to objects that were created on the fly

Hey all,

I call this method to create two objects with certain attributes but
because of this, these objects do not have the attributes of any of
the report object instantiated normally:

  def self.sum_distance_by_date
    find_by_sql("SELECT date_trunc(''day'', time),
SUM(distance) FROM
reports GROUP BY date_trunc(''day'', time)")
  end

So this method creates two report objects with a sum method and
date_trunc method but none of the instance methods assigned to regular
report object instances. The problem is the sum method returns a value
that I need to modify and I am not sure how to create an extra method
for these two objects to do that. I try adding this to report model:

  def distance_miles_for_report
    self.sum * 0.000621371192
  end

  def distance_format
    if self.has_attribute?(:distance)
      return sprintf("%.2f mi.", distance_miles)
    elsif self.has_attribute?(:sum)
      return sprintf("%.2f mi.", distance_miles_for_report)
    end
  end

But simply adding this instance method to report model does not copy
the methods over to the object instances created with
sum_distance_by_date. So I am wondering how I can ensure that the
distance_format and distance_miles_for_report method are copied to
objects created with  sum_distance_by_date.

thanks for response

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