how to write acts_as style model extensions?

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Hi, I want to have a go at writing an extension to my models, in a similar style to those acts_as model extensions. I want to have a sigle declaration that includes my functionality, similar to "acts_as_taggable" and then specify callbacks in a similar way to "before_filter" that my extended functionality will call. Something like:-

Class Item < ActiveRecord   acts_as_widget   widget_work_filter :do_widget_work

  def do_widget_work    ...   end

end

Is there a good resource you can point me at that will explain how to do this...?