Hi --
I need to change a little method in rails, specifically the authorization method in ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic (which uses a fixed list of authentication env locations that doesn't include what my server does).
Right now the way i do it is i have at the end of my application.rb file
module ActionController::HttpAuthentication::Basic def authorization #code here... end end
Is there a better way of doing it?
(Written under protest, because you're making me respond to the
loathsome phrase "monkey patching" 
Off-hand it looks to me like that might be happier living in the config/initializers directory, assuming you're using 2.0 and that putting it there would have the same effect. It feels a bit buried in application.rb, whereas if it were in its own file in initializers, it would be more on the surface of the code and easier to find and/or notice.
David