If you follow me on Twitter or have been following the rails core mailing list lately, you might have seen mention of the MetaWhere rewrite I’ve been working on. If you haven’t, let me start by linking you to the rewrite branch on GitHub. This is just a quick post explaining why I’m rewriting it, and why you should care.
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Monthly Archives: February 2011
When to use alias_method_chain
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Recently, I stumbled upon a fork of one of my projects in which someone made a really intelligent-sounding commit: “Remove needless indirection of alias_method_chain.” He used the term indirection, so I was duly impressed, and my curiosity was piqued: had I sinned against the programming gods and used an alias_method_chain when it wasn’t needed? No, I hadn’t. alias_method_chain is frequently abused in the Rails world, but it wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t a valid use case.
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Feb 3, 2011
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I'm Ernie Miller. But then, you probably knew that by looking at the page title, or the URL. I'm a Ruby programmer in Louisville, Kentucky. This blog used to be called "metautonomo.us", which I thought was kind of clever, but nobody, including me, could type it. Lesson learned.