Just a short one for now.
Most of the time, if you are working on a well defined project, it's pretty easy to find where a function is if you want to change/tweak it. You can look in the class where it is defined and/or see if there are any mixins or decorators.
Sometimes, it can be downright impossible to tell.
Enter source_location
Fire up your rails console and put in the following (for a class method :search on User)
User.method(:search).source_location
if you have an instance method
User.new.method(:search).source_location
This should give you something like the following
Most of the time, if you are working on a well defined project, it's pretty easy to find where a function is if you want to change/tweak it. You can look in the class where it is defined and/or see if there are any mixins or decorators.
Sometimes, it can be downright impossible to tell.
Enter source_location
Fire up your rails console and put in the following (for a class method :search on User)
User.method(:search).source_location
if you have an instance method
User.new.method(:search).source_location
This should give you something like the following
["/Users/yourdrive/Projects/prokect/vendor/cache/thinking-sphinx-9b71ce0f7d9d/lib/thinking_sphinx/search_methods.rb",
367]
This should at least give you some idea of what is going on...
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