Add Helper Methods To An ActiveRecord Model

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        Adds a common set of class methods to a group of models.  This is obviously a silly example.  View a real example of mine: http://dev.comiclog.com/file/trunk/lib/raw_sql_helper.rb.

The helper:

require 'digest/sha1'
module ShaHelper
  def self.append_features(base) # :nodoc:
    super
    base.extend ClassMethods
  end

  module ClassMethods
    def sha1(data)
      Digest::SHA1.hexdigest data
    end
  end
end

The model: 

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  include ShaHelper
end

Usage:

<%= Post.sha1 'test' %>

Unit Test:

require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../test_helper'

class ShaHelperTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
  include ShaHelper::ClassMethods

  def test_sha1
    assert_equals 'a94a8fe5ccb19ba61c4c0873d391e987982fbbd3', sha1('test')
  end
end

Tags:
• Ruby
• rubyonrails