Sebastian, Since it's an ActiveRecord module that gets included into AR::Base, you either need to:
1) (Sneaky) Load your own Batches module when AR wants to autoload it (active_record.rb:51) - override Module#autoload to 'listen' for the Batches module, and substitute your version (located in /lib or something) instead. You'll have to do this before Rails loads AR, though, so put it in /config/preinitializer.rb. 2) (More sane) Monkey-patch the changed methods into AR::B through a file you include in /lib, /config/initializers or through your own plugin. You would probably be overriding #find_in_batches, #sort_batch_rows! and #select_batch_ids. 3) Freeze rails, replace the file. This is the simplest, and least error-prone, though upgrading and patching Rails may be trickier. Colin On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Sebastian von Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to find a way to implement a diff I found into my > application (https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/tickets/ > 2137-allow-find_batches-to-use-order-limit-and-offset). It is > imperative that I use find_in_batches as well as passing an :order > option to the function. Certain rows need to be processed before > others, and because of the size of the table I can't do them all at > once. > > Now, my question is, how could I do this with the least amount of > fuss? I don't want to edit the batches.rb in my Rails installation, as > I then would have to do the same on servers and other workstations. I > also don't particularly want to freeze Rails. I've tried just slapping > a new batches.rb into /vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/, > hoping that that would override just that file, but it doesn't seem to > work. > > Any help would be appreciated! > > Best regards, > Sebastian > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
