Question

I know it sounds strange but I see that there’s a application controller, helper and view but why no model for global/general use? I need a place to put scopes and methods that go across multiple models which wouldn’t make sense if it was in one or the other. Can I do this now? Anybody have a way to handle this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Either create a base model class, or a module. (Or both, I suppose.)

The module can be mixed in to ActiveRecord::Base or individual models.

You could also create class methods that include only specific scopes/methods, like:

included_scopes :foo, :bar

This can be helpful for documentation and readability so that functionality is explicit and obvious.

Which (or which combination) makes sense depends on specifics, but there’s a few ideas to kick around.