Hi Fred, Thanks for your reply. I tried overriding the methods directly, but they seem to be ignored by AR and the association proxy takes precedence over my implementation. However, I've looked over my code and am going to try a different approach than trying to override the original accessors for now; I'll post back how I get on.
Thanks, Chris On Apr 17, 1:23 pm, Frederick Cheung <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 Apr 2009, at 11:27, Chris wrote: > > > However, this just gives me an > > instance.meta_associations.meta_associations method, rather than > > overriding the default instance.meta_associations. Is this possible, > > or should I forget using :has_many and manually write all the > > collection accessors/mutators? > > Well you cannot overwrite the instance.meta_associations method like > that (since you're adding method to the associations proxy, but > foo.meta_associations just returns that proxy). > > You may get some mileage out of overwriting the methods that actually > load the association (find_target, the method that generates the scope > used for other operations etc) > > Fred > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > -- > >www.chrisblunt.com > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
