Expand Active Record

Rails
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Silly question, how do I expand (add a function to) Active Record for
all of my models?

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Mindtonic wrote:

Silly question, how do I expand (add a function to) Active Record for
all of my models?

Depends on where in Active Record you want to extend it.

In a nutshell, you just create a new module and include it in
ActiveRecord.

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I am wanting to add the self.full_text_search for Ferret in a way that
I only have to put it in one place and not in every single model that
I want to be able to search. That would be a lot of repeating
myself! Thanks…

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On Sep 5, 6:15 am, Mindtonic [email protected] wrote:

I am wanting to add the self.full_text_search for Ferret in a way that
I only have to put it in one place and not in every single model that
I want to be able to search. That would be a lot of repeating
myself! Thanks…

I think you could have a subclass of AR::Base that acts_as_ferret and
then your models subclass that, but then you index every column of
every table (?!)