Initializers and automatically running code

rubyonrails-talk
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I want to decorate ActiveRecord with a new method so that any classes that inherit from it also have the method.

I've been told that initializers are the way to go, yet when I put a file in initializers containing:

class << ActiveRecord::Base

   def methodName(params)    end

end

The method doesn't exist. While I realize this may be the simplest of errors, I was going on some advice and I more or less would likely benefit of having a full explanation of what's going on with initializers, "class <<" and how the best way to add methods to ActiveRecord without actually modifying the ActiveRecord class itself...

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I want to decorate ActiveRecord with a new method so that any classes that inherit from it also have the method.

I've been told that initializers are the way to go, yet when I put a file in initializers containing:

class << ActiveRecord::Base

def methodName(params) end

end

Did you want to add a class method or were you intending to add an instance method ?

Fred