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authorJamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com>2006-04-26 17:46:43 +0000
committerJamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com>2006-04-26 17:46:43 +0000
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Added Module#alias_method_chain
git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@4276 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
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-rw-r--r--activesupport/CHANGELOG2
-rw-r--r--activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module.rb1
-rw-r--r--activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module/aliasing.rb16
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/CHANGELOG b/activesupport/CHANGELOG
index e38eb9ad31..3a4b4e477f 100644
--- a/activesupport/CHANGELOG
+++ b/activesupport/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
*SVN*
+* Added Module#alias_method_chain [Jamis Buck]
+
* Updated to Builder 2.0 [DHH]
* Add Array#split for dividing arrays into one or more subarrays by value or block. [Sam Stephenson]
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module.rb
index e67cf940f6..45069f52af 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module.rb
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@ require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/module/attribute_accessors'
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/module/delegation'
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/module/introspection'
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/module/loading'
+require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/module/aliasing'
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module/aliasing.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module/aliasing.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a80ff0f26d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module/aliasing.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+class Module
+ # Encapsulates the common pattern of:
+ #
+ # alias_method :foo_without_feature, :foo
+ # alias_method :foo, :foo_with_feature
+ #
+ # With this, you simply do:
+ #
+ # alias_method_chain :foo, :feature
+ #
+ # And both aliases are set up for you.
+ def alias_method_chain(target, feature)
+ alias_method "#{target}_without_#{feature}", target
+ alias_method target, "#{target}_with_#{feature}"
+ end
+end