Hi,
I am trying to set initial process when instantiating model by
overriding initialize() method which takes arguments. The initialize()
method overrides the parent ActiveRecord::Base class's by taking
arguments and assign arguments to its instance variables.
class Product < ActiveRecord::Base
def initialize(item = nil)
super
# and then process to assign variables from item argument to
instance variables
# ....
end
In order to fully leverage ActiveRecord::Base class functionality, I'm
calling super to run the default initialization process (i.e. set up
all setter/getter methods). However, the Product class above still
can't find getter/setter methods for its variables. In the meantime, I
found the following blog article suggesting use after_initialize
instead of overriding Active Record object.
Rails: Don't override initialize on ActiveRecord objects
http://blog.dalethatcher.com/2008/03/rails-dont-override-initialize-on.html
I could not find ways to set arguments for this after_initialize
approach.
Can anybody advise should I override initialize() or use
after_initialize with some ways to take arguments?
Thanks,
Ryo
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