Override ActiveRecord#save, Method Alias? Trying to mixin functionality into save method...

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Published on 2010-05-10T07:40:42Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 7:44 UTC
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Here's the situation:

I have a User model, and two modules for authentication: Oauth and Openid. Both of them override ActiveRecord#save, and have a fair share of implementation logic.

Given that I can tell when the user is trying to login via Oauth vs. Openid, but that both of them have overridden save, how do "finally" override save such that I can conditionally call one of the modules' implementations of it?

Here is the base structure of what I'm describing:

module UsesOauth

  def self.included(base)
    base.class_eval do
      def save
        puts "Saving with Oauth!"
      end

      def save_with_oauth
        save
      end
    end
  end

end

module UsesOpenid

  def self.included(base)
    base.class_eval do
      def save
        puts "Saving with OpenID!"
      end

      def save_with_openid
        save
      end
    end
  end

end

module Sequencer

  def save
    if using_oauth?
      save_with_oauth
    elsif using_openid?
      save_with_openid
    else
      super
    end
  end

end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  include UsesOauth
  include UsesOpenid
  include Sequencer
end

I was thinking about using alias_method like so, but that got too complicated, because I might have 1 or 2 more similar modules. I also tried using those save_with_oauth methods (shown above), which almost works. The only thing that's missing is that I also need to call ActiveRecord::Base#save (the super method), so something like this:

def save_with_oauth
  # do this and that
  super.save
  # the rest
end

But I'm not allowed to do that in ruby.

Any ideas for a clever solution to this?

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