From: Shak Shak <sshaikh@...>
Date: 2009-05-13T07:07:07+09:00
Subject: Calling methons in subclass on extend

In Rails, the Tableless plugin allows you to define tableless models:

class A < ActiveRecord::Base
   include Mod
   tableless :columns => [[:id, :int]]
   column :name, :string
end

I'm not clear what you call these methods being called in class
definition. Static constructor calls perhaps? Anyway, let's say I want a
new model as A, but with an extra column:

class B < A
   column :desc, :string
end

How do I get the process of inheriting from A call the same static
methods as in A's definition? I tried something like this:

class A < ActiveRecord::Base
   def A.setup(clazz)
      clazz.class_eval{include Mod}
      clazz.tableless :columns => [[:id, :int]]
      clazz.column :name, :string
   end

   def A.inherited(clazz)
      setup(clazz)
   end

   setup(A)
end

But this doesn't seem to work - A seems to work as before, but B cannot
be new'd for some reason (can't dup NilClass). Any suggestions on how to
get this working as intended?

Although I'm using this in Rails, I assume that this is a general Ruby
meta programming question, but apologies if I've placed it in the wrong
forum.

Shak
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