On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[email protected]> wrote: > So I have a plugin that is shared by many people. I'd really like a > good way to mark certain methods as 'deprecated', that will be > disappearing in a future version. > > I noticed that ActiveSupport::Deprecation seems to already include such > things, and is used internally for marking Rails code as deprecated. > > But would it make sense to use this myself? It seems to be lacking any > public rdoc at all, which makes me a bit nervous, maybe I shoudln't use > it? But seems like it would work. > > class MyOwn > include ActiveSupport::Deprecation > > deprecate(:method_name) > > ... > end > > > Good idea? Horrible idea? Is there a better idea to be able to mark > deprecated stuff in my own classes?
Great idea! You don't need to mix in the module, either: the deprecate method is already available in your classes. jeremy -- 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.
