Where is the best place to stash Ruby files that add functionality to Rails classes (in my case, ActiveRecord::Base)? I think my module is being loaded too late, and causing a class method to be undefined.
Here's what I tried: I wrote a module to add a new class method to ActiveRecord::Base following a pattern that I picked up from http://guides.rubyonrails.org/plugins.html; in my module implement the included callback and have it extend the target class with my class methods (actually singleton methods on the metaclass of my class object if I'm understanding all of this weirdness correctly): def self.included(base) base.send :extend, ClassMethods end module ClassMethods def my_method end end Then outside of the module definition I tell ActiveRecord::Base to include my module: ActiveRecord::Base.send(:include, MyModule) And according to my (obviously poorly written) unit test, this all worked wonderfully: def test_responds_to_my_method assert MyModel.respond_to?(:my_method, true) end Great! Except.. class MyModel < ActiveRecord::Base my_method # undefined local variable or method `my_method' end So it seems reasonable to me that this might happen if my_model.rb is loaded first, then my module, then the test. Additional evidence is that if I add a "debugger" line to my included callback, I'm never sent to the debugger. Unless I remove the call to my_method, then I am. So if my hypothesis is correct, it's a bad idea to add my modules to lib\modules and append that to the end of my load path. But then where should I stash modules that update rails classes? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
