Hi all,
I'm trying to turn off dasherize in all cases, since converting underscores to hyphens breaks the way that I want to handle XML (with E4X in Flex 2).
I've read the other threads about dasherize on this list. I'm on Edge Rails, so I can successfully turn off dasherize for a single usage with something like
render :xml => @task.to_xml(:dasherize => false)
I don't want to have to do this in every case, of course. So, I can go ahead and add the following to my application.rb:
module ActiveRecord #:nodoc: module XmlSerialization #We change the default for :dasherize, since it is never what we want. def to_xml(options = {:dasherize => false}) XmlSerializer.new(self, options).to_s end end ...etc... end
This works fine.
However, I also have to change the behaviour for two of the other to_xml methods:
to_xml (ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions:
:Conversions)
to_xml (ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Array::Conversions)
(The to_xml in ActiveRecord::Errors doesn't use it.)
Anyway, the source in the Hash::Conversions and Array::Conversions is larger, so I don't want to override the method just to change the default. Is there any way that I can set the default of :dasherize to false without doing that?
[I asked about this when I was on Rails 1.1 and the response was to just add to_xml_nodash methods or modify the to_xml ones, which worked but was unfortunate since by overriding the methods I'd clobber any changes to them. I'm just wondering if anyone who is a Ruby / Rails guru can think of a better way to do this now that there is actually the :dasherize option to play with...]
I wish there was some constant I could just set to make dasherize default to false in all three methods that use it. I'm sure I'm not the only one...
Thanks, Peter Armstrong