Override existing Discourse methods in plugins

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This is great, thanks for sharing James!

Overriding instance and class methods

My fav resource on this is: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4471202

I use basically the same structure, except I tend to seperate out the module and the prepend.

As you pointed out, this pattern is “super” :wink: useful when trying to avoid overriding core logic.

module InviteMailerEventExtension
  def send_invite(invite)
     ## stuff
     super(invite)
  end
end

require_dependency 'invite_mailer'
class ::InviteMailer
  prepend InviteMailerEventExtension
end

One small tip here is that when overriding private or protected methods, your overriding method also needs to be private or protected, e.g.

module UserNotificationsEventExtension
  protected def send_notification_email(opts)
    ## stuff
    super(opts)
  end
end
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