Rails - Jan 2012 - Can you extend an association, but only for a specific instance?

ActiveRecord allows an association to be extended, as in:

  module FindWeeklyExtension
    def weekly(start)
      where("created_at > :t1 and created_at < :t2",
        :t1 => start,
        :t2 => start + 7.days
      )
    end
  end

  class Author
    has_many :posts, :extend => FindWeeklyExtension
  end

Over time, though, classes might start to include many modules:

  class Author
    # several modules

    has_many :posts, :extend => [...]
  end

You might notice that you only need an extension or module to exist in
one particular context:

  module WeeklyDigest
    def weekly_posts(start)
      posts.weekly(start)
    end
  end

So it''d be cleaner not to have that in the class, and instead to do
something like this:

  # Author
  class Author
    has_many :posts # we refactored :extend => FindWeeklyExtension ...
  end

  module WeeklyDigest
    def weekly_posts(start)
      posts.extend FindWeeklyExtension # ... and moved it here
      posts.weekly(start)
    end
  end

However, this doesn''t work:

  NoMethodError: undefined method `where'' for #<Array:
0x00000007d0e970>

So, is there a good way to extend an association, but only for a
specific instance''s association?

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