Question

So i have a controller which subclasses down from the application controller. It defines a variety of protected methods, as well does the application controller. Now, if the application controller already defines those methods, I do not want them to be overwritten by its subclass. I’ve been trying things in this controller such as:

class SomeController < ApplicationController

protected
  unless instance_methods.include? "some_method"
    def some_method
    end
  end

However, using the Rails logger, I can still see that the some_method is being called.

Answer 1

Doing some further searching, I was able to figure it out :), thanks to the poster on this question here: How to judge whether a method has defined in a class?

class SomeController < ApplicationController

protected
  unless method_defined? "some_method"
    def some_method
    end
  end