Hi,
I'm trying to override the "redirect_to" method in the ActionController's Base class but I am running into some trouble. The method seems to reside in "class Base", "class << self". This might be part of the problem.
First of all I am using one file to specify all my overrides: "overrides.rb", which I require in my "environment.rb" file.
In any case if I try to override it like so:
class ActionController::Base def redirect_to # do something end end
It fails since it can't find the name: ActionController. I solved this by moving the override into the "application_helper.rb" file. Is there a way to position my "overrides.rb" file so that it could override this method?
When I place the override in my application_helper i can override it but I can't call "super". It seems to think there is no super method available (this might be caused by the class << self part?).
Currently I solved the problem by copying the code from "base.rb"'s redirect_to function into the override like so.
class ActionController::Base
def redirect_to(options = {}, *parameters_for_method_reference) #:doc:
# do something
case options
...
... # much code that should not be here 
...
end
end
end
Needless to say this method sucks (big time). I'd like to know the correct way to override this method.
Andre Foeken