Question

I created a module which is included in a class. In the module, I am trying to define a method that is the downcased version of a class name without Filter. So ShowFilter would have a method called show that returns the class Show. I get “NoMethodError:
undefined method `show’ for ShowFilter:Class”

module Filters

  module Base

    module ClassMethods

      @@filters = {}

      def filter name, &block
        @@filters[name] = block
      end

      def run query = {}
        query.each do |name, value|
          @@filters[name.to_sym].call(value) unless @@filters[name.to_sym].nil?
        end
        self
      end

      def self.extended(base)
        name = base.class.name.gsub(/filter/i, '')
        define_method(name.downcase.to_sym) { Kernel.const_get name }
      end


    end

    def self.included base
      base.extend ClassMethods
    end

  end

end


class ShowFilter
    include Filters::Base

    filter :name do |name|
        self.show.where(:name => name)
    end

end

EDIT: Example of use

class ShowController < ApplicationController
  def index
    ShowFilter.run params[:query]
  end
end

Answer 1

When you define Filters::Base::ClassMethods, it evaluates self in that context so the method you’ll end up defining is ClassMethods.classmethods (since the gsub won’t do anything).

Like the included hook you tapped into in Base, you want to use extended in ClassMethods:

module Filters
  module Base
    module ClassMethods

      @@filters = {}

      def filter name, &block
        @@filters[name] = block 
      end 

      def run query = {} 
        query.each do |name, value| 
          @@filters[name.to_sym].call(value) unless @@filters[name.to_sym].nil? 
        end 
        Object.const_get(self.to_s.gsub('Filter', '')) 
      end 

      def self.extended(base) 
        define_method(base.to_s.downcase.gsub('filter', '').to_sym) do 
          Object.const_get(self.to_s.gsub('Filter', '')) 
        end 
      end 
    end 

    def self.included base 
      base.extend ClassMethods 
    end 
  end 
end
class ShowFilter 
  include Filters::Base 

  filter :title do |title| 
    self.show.where(:title => title) 
  end 
end