Is there anyway to extend the Team model to add my own attributes?

[Altonymous]

Referencing this model:

• https://github.com/slack-ruby/slack-ruby-bot-server/blob/a6786f945ef3926eb155d2611e694357303e820f/lib/slack-ruby-bot-server/models/team/mongoid.rb

[dblock]

I monkey patch these in my projects.

class Team
  include Mongoid::Document
  include Mongoid::Timestamps

  field :whatever, type: String

There should be a cleaner way.

[Altonymous]

I attempted to do that but couldn't get it to work.

Not sure what I did incorrectly, is there a special way I need to tell rails to load the new class other than placing it the models directory of Rails?

[dblock]

I don't think so. Example: https://github.com/dblock/slack-sup/blob/master/slack-sup/models/team.rb

Put up a small app and show how it's not working?

[Altonymous]

I'll try and put something together to demonstrate. (Leaving some notes here to help me in a bit.)

Rails Version: 7.0.4
Ruby Version: 3.1.2p20

Gist: https://gist.github.com/Altonymous/96fb6c07294b86de0ea343ce007a4dbe

[Altonymous]

Here's an example I put together, hopefully this is what helps.

https://github.com/Altonymous/example_app/blob/main/README.md

[Altonymous]

Found this StackOverflow, finally. (Google-fu Skill: +1)

https://stackoverflow.com/a/48665268

The "answer" doesn't do it, but the one made by "Carles Jove i Buxeda" seems to work for the example_app I posted. (I haven't updated it yet, in case this isn't a good way to handle it.)

Going to see how it works in my actual application now.

[dblock]

@Altonymous Thanks. I'd like this to be documented, but even more I'd like https://github.com/slack-ruby/slack-bot-on-rails to be updated to the latest version of slack-ruby-bot-server and its libraries. Maybe you can help?

[hcyildirim]

Hi all, is there a way to extend the Team model? I'm using Rails 6 btw.

I've tried:

# lib/extensions/slack_ruby_bot_server/team.rb

module Extensions
  module SlackRubyBotServer
    module Team
      extend ActiveSupport::Concern
      
      included do
        def self.color
          'blue'
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

# config/initializers/slack_ruby_bot_server.rb

require 'extensions/slack_ruby_bot_server/team'

SlackRubyBotServer.configure do |config|
  config.oauth_version = :v2
  config.oauth_scope = ENV.fetch('SLACK_OAUTH_SCOPE').split(/\s*,\s*/)
end

Rails.application.config.to_prepare do
  begin
    if ActiveRecord::Base.connection.table_exists?(:teams)
      SlackRubyBotServer::Models::Team.include(Extensions::SlackRubyBotServer::Team)
    end
  rescue ActiveRecord::NoDatabaseError
  end
end

But couldn't find how slack ruby bot server exposes the model's directory.

It says: uninitialized constant SlackRubyBotServer::Models (NameError)

Could you help me?

[dblock]

I still just monkey-patch the Team class, e.g. https://github.com/dblock/slack-sup2/blob/main/lib/models/team.rb, open for someone contributing a better mechanism.

[hcyildirim]

Where to put this new team model? I did put it on models directory but couldn't make it work on Rails.

[dblock]

If you want to upgrade https://github.com/slack-ruby/slack-bot-on-rails and try adding it to that I can take a look.