Allow calls to instantiate_record in ActiveResource for Custom Actions

Right now, to consume custom actions, you have to call .get(:custom_action). This returns a hash, as opposed to a record like .find does.

For my purposes, I need to instantiate the resulting hash into a record. However, there's no way for me to do that because instantiate_record is private. Same goes for instantiate_collection.

Is there a way we could let MyActiveResource call the instantiate methods, by making them protected, for example?

My current workaround is creating my own get_record method to replace .get. However, it doesn't have a lot of the goodness that instantiate_record has, and is a pretty brittle solution all around

def get_record(path)

MyActiveResource.new(get(path))

end