Rails - Mar 2013 - Monkey Patching and acts_as_indexed

Hi,
I''ve monkey patched ActiveRecord::Base in a way so that every model
class knows which attributes are "important".

So in my model I can now do sth like this:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  attribute_order :username, :password, :name, :mailaddress, :usergroup,
:created_at
  acts_as_indexed :fields => self.sorted_attributes
end

The monkey-patch looks like this:

class ActiveRecord::Base

  def self.attribute_order(*values)
    @_sorted_attributes = []
    values.collect do |v|
      @_sorted_attributes.push(v)
    end
  end

  def self.sorted_attributes
    if defined? @_sorted_attributes
      @_sorted_attributes
    else
      self.attribute_names.map do |a|
        a.to_sym
      end
    end
  end
end

Now I''d like to add the acts_as_indexed method to ALL my models by
adding it into the monkey-patch:

class ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_indexed :fields => self.sorted_attributes
  ...
end

This doesn''t work as the sorted attributes don''t seem to exist
when the
Class is Inheriting from ActiveRecord::Base, and the acts_as_indexed is
called too early. How could I delay the call of acts_as_indexed until
the class has been initialized? putting it into attribute_order doesn''t
help, because this method must not be called by every model.

Wolfgang

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