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Ivan
Ivan

Reputation: 104079

Reopen plugin model in main Rails application

A plugin provides a model called User. Is it possible to reopen it in my app?

If I create app/models/user.rb and try it there, the whole model is overridden and the original plugin methods are no longer available.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 163

Answers (1)

Ivan
Ivan

Reputation: 104079

This is the only way I found so far:

# app/models/plugin_user.rb
class PluginUser
  def self.load
    User.class_eval do
      # my code here
    end
  end
end

# plugin model:
class User
  # ...
end

PluginUser.load

It would be nice if there was a way of doing this without modifying the plugin code. In this case it doesn't matter because the plugin is mine, but if I needed to do the same to another plugin I'd need to fork it.

Upvotes: 1

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