GurusQ: Metal calling disparity-How to install metal in code

I have a simple class that I want to install as Rails Metal. I don't want to put it into a file in app/metal for reasons I don't want to go into. It looks like this, and handler is defined elsewhere.

class UrlFilter   ALLOW = [404]   DENY = [403]   def self.call(env)     handler.call(env["PATH_INFO"]) ? ALLOW : DENY   end end

I've tried installing it like this : ActionController::Dispatcher.middleware.use UrlFilter

but on the first request it crashes with :

Sat Apr 03 00:29:43 +0800 2010: Read error: #<ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (0 for 1)> /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/middleware_stack.rb:31:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/middleware_stack.rb:31:in `klass' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/middleware_stack.rb:42:in `active?' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/middleware_stack.rb:112:in `active' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:108:in `find_all' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/middleware_stack.rb:112:in `each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/middleware_stack.rb:112:in `find_all' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/middleware_stack.rb:112:in `active' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/middleware_stack.rb:116:in `build' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:130:in `build_middleware_stack' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:113:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/reloader.rb:34:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.3.5/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:108:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/rails/rack/static.rb:31:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/urlmap.rb:46:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/urlmap.rb:40:in `each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/urlmap.rb:40:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/rails/rack/log_tailer.rb:17:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/content_length.rb:13:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/chunked.rb:15:in `call' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/handler/mongrel.rb:64:in `process' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:159:in `process_client' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:158:in `each' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:158:in `process_client' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:285:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:285:in `initialize' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:285:in `new' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:285:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:268:in `initialize' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:268:in `new' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5/lib/mongrel.rb:268:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rack-1.0.1/lib/rack/handler/mongrel.rb:34:in `run' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.3.5/lib/commands/server.rb:111 /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' /Library/Ruby/Site/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' script/server:3

The rails calling code looks like this :

      def klass         if @klass.respond_to?(:call)           @klass.call         elsif @klass.is_a?(Class)           @klass         else           @klass.to_s.constantize         end       rescue NameError         @klass       end

      def active?         return false unless klass

        if @conditional.respond_to?(:call)           @conditional.call         else           @conditional         end       end

Notice when calling call no arguments are passed (twice!) ? Every metal example I've seen defines the entry method as

  def self.call(env)

yet this calling code doesn't pass any.

Whats going on ? How do I define and install a metal class in code ?