So you found yourself in the need to override a method but still count on it's old behaviour? No problem! Override it with your new code, call super and.... Uh oh!! Suddenly this turned into a problem... Let me give some more context. I was testing Ferret (and the acts_as_ferret plugin) in a project to provide full text search capabilities to our models. One of the things the plugin does is to add a new method to ActiveRecord, called find_with_ferret.

This is quite funny. A friend, Perl addicted, is now learning Ruby. He really enjoys the language but made a interesting observation: Ruby is a language for lazy programmers! Well, I have to agree... You know, I love saving keystrokes and achieving more by writing less. And this is so true with Ruby. Let me give a really simple example, comparing with java - don't get me wrong... I love java, specially the platform, but it fits well here since I've always been a Java guy.