Making those fancy advanced methods

Rails
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How do you write a method thats similar to find_by_username, I want to
write a method that works dynamically like that, but I have no idea
where to begin…

Do you declare the method differently? How do you access the part of the
method header you want, i.e. username?

TIA
Luke

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Take a look at method_missing, and specifically how ActiveRecord::Base
implements it in the Rails codebase.

method_missing is the method called when a method is…er…missing. :slight_smile:
For example:

def method_missing(meth)
puts “Called #{meth}, which was missing…”
raise NoMethodError
end

Playing with that in a class should get you started.

–Jeremy

On Feb 6, 2008 5:29 PM, Luke G.
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