class MyClass < ActiveResource::[.co]Base  self.site = [.dl]"[.k]#http://localhost:3000/[.dl]"[.r]#end~
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And then called this class as follows:
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MyClass.create(:param => [.dl]"[.k]#param-value[.dl]")~
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This worked fine for us until we wanted to parameterise the 'site' value so that we could set it to different values depending which build we were running (dev/ci/qa). We tried all the obvious ways - overriding the constructor and passing in the site, trying to set the site by calling MyClass.site but none of them did what we wanted. We eventually ended up creating a new method to create an instance of the class with our configurable site:
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[.r]#class MyClass < ActiveResource::[.co]Basedef instance(site, args)  self.site = site  new(args) unless args.nil?endend~
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We then call the code like this:
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my_class = MyClass.instance([.dl]"[.k]#http://localhost:3000[.dl]", [.sy]:param# => [.dl]"[.k]#param-value[.dl]#")my_class.save~
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It seems like a bit of a hack but it got it working!



Out of interest it has taken me ages to try and find a way to put the Ruby code on here in a readable format. I tried to use the TextMate exporter but that wasn’t giving me any love. I eventually ended up using Spotlight, a neat little tool written by Tyler Jennings. I found it from Jake Scruggs blog post.