What's the cleanest way to override ActiveRecord's find for both models and collections?

Question

I have library code that overrides Ar\'s find method. I also include the module for all Association classes so both MyModel.find and @parent.my_models.find work and apply the co

Answer 1

'Pedro's answer is right, but there's a small mistake.

def self.included(base)
  class << base
    base.extend ClassMethods
  end
end

should be

def self.included(base)
  base.extend ClassMethods
end

Using class << base ... end has the effect of calling 'extend' on 'base' in the class-method scope, but there is no method 'base' in ActiveRecord::Base so an error is thrown. Using base.extend by itself will call the 'extend' method of ActiveRecord::Base.