Proper way to replace ActiveRecord methods for all Models

Rails
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Hi all,

What is the proper way to replace/wrap functionality in ActiveRecord
for all my models? Currently, I am doing this which works:

module ActiveRecord

module AttributeMethods

alias write_attribute_internal write_attribute

def write_attribute( attr_name, value )

  value = nil if value == '' # Empty strings are considered nil!

  write_attribute_internal( attr_name, value )

end

end

end

But it feels messy. Inheritance seems to be out of the question
because of the way ActiveRecord infers the table name (table_name()).

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On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:31 AM, apramanik [email protected] wrote:

alias write_attribute_internal write_attribute

end

But it feels messy. Inheritance seems to be out of the question
because of the way ActiveRecord infers the table name (table_name()).

Leaving aside the question of why you’d want to do this globally, such
stuff is normally done in Rails using alias_method chain. Which would
make this more conventional code:

module ActiveRecord::AttributeMethods
def write_attribute_with_empty_string_nilling( attr_name, value )
value = nil if value == ‘’ # Empty strings are considered nil!
write_attribute_without_empty_string_nilling attr_name, value
end

alias_method_chain :write_attribute :empty_string_nilling

end

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Haha, it was just a test to see if it would work. Thanks for the info!