On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:42:26PM +0200, Allen Young wrote:
> Allen Young wrote:
> > It seems that define_method doesn't work at all. I got many errors
> > saying that there is no method defined for things like ferret_field1. I
> > even tried to define a simple method dynamically with the following
> > code at the class level of my model class.
> >
> > define_method :say_hello { puts 'hello' }
> >
> > But unexpectedly, method_missing is called, so it means that
> > define_method doesn't work. Is there anything wrong about my using with
> > define_method?
> >
> Well, I got something. If I write define_method is this way:
>
> define_method(:say_hello) { puts 'hello' }
syntax weirdness ...
> then the "say_hello" method can be defined dynamically. Quite strange!
> But I still cannot figure out why
>
> OtherClass.ferret_fields.keys.each do |field|
> define_method :"ferret_#{field}" do
> other_object.send(field)
> end
> end
>
> doesn't work. Is this becouse define_method is in the context of
> OtherClass and thus dynamically adds all the method to OtherClass?
no, but you could try to add the parens there as well:
define_method(:"ferret_#{field}") do
...
Jens
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