basic ruby inheritance question

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I had a question over at the active scaffold forum no one was biting on so I thought I'd try here. In the example below the create_authorized? is called by active scaffold to determine if links should display in the ui.

This example works as I expect:

class FooController < ApplicationController   <snip>   def create_authorized?     authorized?('create')   end end

but if I try to move this method to ApplicationController like shown below the method is not called:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base   <snip>   def create_authorized?     authorized?('create')   end end

Maybe if I understood more how ruby/oop works, I could figure this out. Can anyone tell me how this is possible.

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is it accidentally under a private declaration in ApplicationController?

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good thought, but I tried the following, which should prove that out, no?

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base   <snip>   protected   def create_authorized?     authorized?('create')   end end