Use ActiveModel observers with your Mongoid 2 models

observing.rb

module Mongoid
  module Observing
    CALLBACKS = [
      :before_create, :before_destroy, :before_save, :before_update,
      :before_validation, :after_create, :after_destroy, :after_save,
      :after_update, :after_validation
    ]

    def self.included(base)
      base.module_eval { include ActiveModel::Observing }

      CALLBACKS.each do |callback|
        callback_method = :"notify_observers_#{callback}"

        base.module_eval <<-RUBY, __FILE__, __LINE__+1
          #{callback}(#{callback_method.inspect})

          def #{callback_method}(&block)
            notify_observers(#{callback.inspect}, &block)
          end
          private #{callback_method.inspect}
        RUBY
      end
    end
  end
end

Hey Mat, How are you registering your Observers? This by far is the best source I have for setting up mongoid observers.

I'm actually just passing them into ActiveRecord::Base.observers= in an initializer -- not particularly accurate semantically, but it has the intended effect.

Thanks for the info. Its seems there is no way to get rid of ActiveRecord--my app has AR cut out at the moment.

Ohh, good call -- I use the two in conjunction. I'd dig around in the AR internals to see what it does when it instantiates observers -- I'll bet it's something simple that you can replicate in an initializer etc...

A message in the Google Group simply initialized the observers in the observed model. Here is my fork based on it with an initializer. What I am trying to achieve next is adding a new Mongoid Config option.

registering ActiveModel observers with ActiveRecord::Base.observers= doesn't work when cache classes is turned on, whereisciao's solution works great, thx!