Hi. I'm currently writing a plugin, which "could" be a patch in that it must override a private method of ActiveRecord API, in ActiveRecord::Dirty, to work smoothly. To make a long story short, this plugin aims at enabling serialization with Marshal instead of YAML (it actually works fine :)) -- the private update_with_dirty() method, defined by an "alias_method_chain :update, :dirty", has to be edited. Not really stable, but hey, it fits my needs ;)
In my vendor/plugins/marshalize/lib/marshalize.rb, I defined a Marshalization module, with some submodules which are included by ActiveRecord::Base in vendor/plugins/marshalize/rails/init.rb using send(). In the submodules I overrided several public class and instance methods from several ActiveRecord submodules, all is fine. But I did not manage to override the private method update_with_dirty () from ActiveRecord::Dirty submodule directly from the plugin. Notice thatthis method eventually becomes an instance private method of ActiveRecord::Base since Dirty is "instance_evaled" by Base (at the bottom of base.rb). For the sake of the tests, I created another private method in my Marshalization::Dirty submodule and it eventually gets included in ActiveRecord::Base as an instance private method; but when it comes to using update_with_dirty(), Rails keeps using the old one from the system active_record/lib/dirty.rb file and not the new one defined in marshalize.rb -- and I don't figure out why :) Here's a gist for this implementation: http://gist.github.com/155990 Feel free to push if needed ;) Thank you for your help ! jd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
