How to write acts_as style model extensions?

Rails
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Hi, I want to have a go at writing an extension to my models, in a
similar style to those acts_as model extensions. I want to have a sigle
declaration that includes my functionality, similar to
“acts_as_taggable” and then specify callbacks in a similar way to
“before_filter” that my extended functionality will call. Something
like:-

Class Item < ActiveRecord
acts_as_widget
widget_work_filter :do_widget_work

def do_widget_work
…
end

end

Is there a good resource you can point me at that will explain how to do
this…?