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Xavier Noria

More options Jan 13, 4:00 pm

From: Xavier Noria <f...@hashref.com>

Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:00:30 +0100

Local: Sun, Jan 13 2008 4:00 pm

Subject: Re: [Rails-core] Re: application.rb -> application_controller.rb

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On Jan 13, 2008, at 6:21 PM, ara.t.howard wrote:

> a great example is

> ApplicationModel < ActiveRecord::Base
> before_save do |record|
> record.updated_by = ApplicationController.current if
> record.respond_to? 'updated_at'
> end
> end

Yes, custom macros would go there as well... it has use cases.

> which, of course, can be done in rails but only with a series of
> monkey patches. do you really think it's clear to people a) how to
> do this, b) where it should go? i really don't but maybe i'm just
> not rails-y enough.

I think it would be expected to emulate what's done with
ApplicationController. That is, the rails generator would write

app/models/application_model.rb

with something like

class ApplicationModel < ActiveRecord::Base
# Stuff common to your models comes here.
end

and the model generator would output something like this

class User < ApplicationModel
end

Active Record would understand ApplicationModel is abstract as a hard-
coded builtin assumption.

-- fxn

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