On 12/30/06, Peter Michaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As for defining models in plugins - what do you feel is the main difficulty?
>
> Perhaps it has changed but when i was using Engines many months ago, I
> had to define the contents of the model in a module and then mix that
> module into the model. Sorry if that is worded so clunky but hopeful
> you know what I'm talking about. It isn't that it is really difficult
> it just doesn't seem as smooth or friendly as being able to define the
> model exactly how it would be defined in a plain vanilla Rails app.

You can certainly define a model as you would in a Rails application -
the only reason for moving functionality into a module is to make it
possible to override selected methods within the application. There
may be better ways to achieve this now (for instance, putting your
plugin models into a module).

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