How to add an after_save callback on runtime on a particular instance

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class User < AR end

user = User.new

Let's say that I have a user instance with me. After this record is saved I want an after_save callback which would print the id of the record. The only catch is that I am not allowed to change the User class. How can I accomplish my goal? Is that even possible to add an after_save callback on a particular instance object. Any metaprogramming hack. I'm sure ruby does provide some tool.

This would be a trivial issue if I were allowed to change the User class but I am not.

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class User < AR end

user = User.new

Let's say that I have a user instance with me. After this record is saved I want an after_save callback which would print the id of the record. The only catch is that I am not allowed to change the User class. How can I accomplish my goal? Is that even possible to add an after_save callback on a particular instance object. Any metaprogramming hack. I'm sure ruby does provide some tool.

This would be a trivial issue if I were allowed to change the User class but I am not.

What do you mean by 'not allowed to change the User class'? Do you mean that you are not allowed to change the file user.rb? If so that is not a problem as you can modify or extend the class in another loaded file merely by providing class User < ... and providing new or modified methods there.

Colin

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class User < AR end

user = User.new

Let's say that I have a user instance with me. After this record is saved I want an after_save callback which would print the id of the record. The only catch is that I am not allowed to change the User class. How can I accomplish my goal? Is that even possible to add an after_save callback on a particular instance object. Any metaprogramming hack. I'm sure ruby does provide some tool.

well on top of what Colin says you can do

def user.some_method

end

or user.extend SomeModule

I think both will prevent you from marshalling the object and I seem to remember that in MRI both will cause ruby to dump it's cache of method names to implementations

Fred