annealerChalk this up to something I never actually noticed until fairly recently. Callbacks got refactored out of ActiveRecord. I’ve ended up ghetto-implementing similar functionality before, and this does everything I could want it to. Here’s a trite example:
module Playable
def self.included(base)
base.send(:include, ActiveSupport::Callbacks)
base.define_callbacks(:before_play, :after_play)
end
def play
run_callbacks(:before_play)
yield
run_callbacks(:after_play)
end
end
class Track
include Playable
before_play { puts "About to play" }
after_play :post_play_message
def play
super do
puts "Playing"
end
end
private
def post_play_message
puts "Done playing"
end
end
>> Track.new.play
About to play
Playing
Done playing
Waiting for Validations to finally follow suit and not be so AR-specific. There’s like two or three different implementations of an Errors object in Rails now, last I checked.