extending the ActiveRecord:Base class

rubyonrails-talk
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Dear list,

I'd like to make an 'after_find' call for each and every AR model I defined. In AWDWR page 376 they do so by opening up the AR class like this: class ActiveRecord::Base   def self.some_method     return 'foo'   end end

All nice and well but where should I store this class?? According to the chapter it should go in app/models. So I placed a file called base.rb in app/models/active_record. To no avail. Placing it in app/ models did no good either.

I know I can do this by defining a module in lib/ and include that in all my models but that is just not as pretty.

With kind regards, Harm

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Put it wherever you want. In environment.rb require that file. An alternative would be

class MyBaseClass < ActiveRecord::Base    self.abstract_class = true    [your funkiness here] end

and then have all your classes inherit from MyBaseClass

Fred

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Aha! So I should just require it. I was hoping that would go 'automagically'. Thanks for the reply.