Override user methods

pfaffman · May 13, 2024, 3:02pm

I’m trying to not save user IP addresses because that’s what someone wants.

I can’t use a callback because IP addresses are saved by directly modifying the database and not through Rails ActiveRecord.

I’m trying to override the User update_ip_address method(s).

I’m doing this:

github.com

literatecomputing/discourse-mask-ip/blob/main/plugin.rb#L21-L26


      
          after_initialize do
            reloadable_patch do |plugin|
              User.class_eval { prepend MaskIpModule::UserExtension}
            end
            
          end

and this:

github.com

literatecomputing/discourse-mask-ip/blob/main/lib/mask_ip_module/override_user.rb

module MaskIpModule
  module UserExtension
    def self.update_ip_address!(user_id, new_ip:, old_ip: )
      puts "update_ip_address! #{user_id} #{new_ip} #{old_ip} --refusing to update"
    end

    def update_ip_address!(ip_address)
      # Your custom implementation goes here
      puts "not going to update!: #{ip_address}"
      #super(MaskIpModule::MASK_ADDRESS)
    end

    def self.my_test
      puts "my_test"
    end
  end
end

But it seems like my stuff isn’t getting loaded. I can’t call User.my_test and when I call User.update_ip_address my puts arren’t happending.

My guess is that I have a file with the wrong name or I need to capitalize something or something else that is both trivial and impossible to figure out.

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