Passing model data to a plugin called within that model

Rails
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I am making a plugin which extends ActiveRecord::Base

I have the plugin working in my models in other aspects. I would like
to pass in some data to the plugin, but I can’t get the data I would
like.

so if I have:

class Stuff < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :thing

my_plugin :id => self.thing.other_id

end

it chokes on figuring out what to do with self.thing.other_id.

I checked, and self isn’t recognized at the point that I am calling
my_plugin

so if i do :

class Stuff < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :thing

my_plugin :id => self.class.to_s

end

when I print out :id the class result comes back as blank.

Is there a way to do this?
The closest I can get is I can sort of do self.send(:thing).send
(:other_id)
It didn’t 100% work, but it was starting to get clunky, and I didn’t
pursue the error I was creating.
There has to be something obvious I am missing.

thanks,
Charles

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class Stuff < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :thing

my_plugin :id => self.thing.other_id

end

This is impossible. self in the above snippet is the Stuff class. I’m
assuming you want that to use a instance of Stuff at the time some
magical method is called. You have to use a block

class Stuff < ActiveRecord::Base
my_plugin do |stuff|
{:id => stuff.thing.other_id}
end
end

The my_plugin method has to know how to store that block so that the
instance can call it, passing itself as the first argument.