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Samuel Lebeau

Memoizable doesn't memoize overriden methods

Reported by Samuel Lebeau | September 8th, 2009 @ 02:09 AM

class Foo
  extend ActiveSupport::Memoizable
  def foo() end
  memoize :foo
end

class Bar < Foo
  def foo() puts "In Bar#foo" end
  # memoize :foo
end

bar = Bar.new
bar.foo
bar.foo

The above snippet prints In Bar#foo twice, which means the overridden foo method isn't memoized.
Uncommenting the memoize :foo statement in Bar throws a Already memoized foo error so achieving memoization of an overriden method sounds impossible.

Unless it's the desired behavior, we could either memoize an overriden memoized method by default, or allow a second call to memoize in the subclass context.

Thanks for making web development awesome !

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  • Elomar França

    Elomar França September 27th, 2009 @ 08:06 PM

    • Tag changed from bugmash to activesupport, bugmash, memoizable

    +1, verified.

    In this case, memoization would only work if Bar#foo called super.

    I've attached a patch with a failing test, applies on 2-3-stable and master.

  • John Pignata

    John Pignata September 28th, 2009 @ 05:44 AM

    • Tag changed from activesupport, bugmash, memoizable to activesupport, bugmash, memoizable, patch

    I've tried several approaches to allow this, notably functionality such as tracking memoized methods using an instance hash and method_added trickery to figure out when a method was overridden. Nothing appears to work across all cases well.

    My attached patch for master adds an option hash to memoize. If :force => true is passed in this hash, memoize will not raise an error. This will allow a developer who encounters this edge case to work around it.

  • Rizwan Reza

    Rizwan Reza February 12th, 2010 @ 12:46 PM

    • Tag changed from activesupport, bugmash, memoizable, patch to activesupport, memoizable, patch
  • Santiago Pastorino

    Santiago Pastorino February 2nd, 2011 @ 04:55 PM

    • State changed from “new” to “open”
    • Importance changed from “” to “”

    This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not been commented on for at least three months.

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  • Santiago Pastorino

    Santiago Pastorino February 2nd, 2011 @ 04:55 PM

    • State changed from “open” to “stale”

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