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memoize

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memoize(*symbols) public

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support/memoizable.rb, line 59
    def memoize(*symbols)
      symbols.each do |symbol|
        original_method = :"_unmemoized_#{symbol}"
        memoized_ivar = ActiveSupport::Memoizable.memoized_ivar_for(symbol)

        class_eval           include InstanceMethods                                                  # include InstanceMethods                                                                                   #          if method_defined?(:#{original_method})                                  # if method_defined?(:_unmemoized_mime_type)            raise "Already memoized #{symbol}"                                     #   raise "Already memoized mime_type"          end                                                                      # end          alias #{original_method} #{symbol}                                       # alias _unmemoized_mime_type mime_type                                                                                   #          if instance_method(:#{symbol}).arity == 0                                # if instance_method(:mime_type).arity == 0            def #{symbol}(reload = false)                                          #   def mime_type(reload = false)              if reload || !defined?(#{memoized_ivar}) || #{memoized_ivar}.empty?  #     if reload || !defined?(@_memoized_mime_type) || @_memoized_mime_type.empty?                #{memoized_ivar} = [#{original_method}]                            #       @_memoized_mime_type = [_unmemoized_mime_type]              end                                                                  #     end              #{memoized_ivar}[0]                                                  #     @_memoized_mime_type[0]            end                                                                    #   end          else                                                                     # else            def #{symbol}(*args)                                                   #   def mime_type(*args)              #{memoized_ivar} ||= {} unless frozen?                               #     @_memoized_mime_type ||= {} unless frozen?              reload = args.pop if args.last == true || args.last == :reload       #     reload = args.pop if args.last == true || args.last == :reload                                                                                   #              if defined?(#{memoized_ivar}) && #{memoized_ivar}                    #     if defined?(@_memoized_mime_type) && @_memoized_mime_type                if !reload && #{memoized_ivar}.has_key?(args)                      #       if !reload && @_memoized_mime_type.has_key?(args)                  #{memoized_ivar}[args]                                           #         @_memoized_mime_type[args]                elsif #{memoized_ivar}                                             #       elsif @_memoized_mime_type                  #{memoized_ivar}[args] = #{original_method}(*args)               #         @_memoized_mime_type[args] = _unmemoized_mime_type(*args)                end                                                                #       end              else                                                                 #     else                #{original_method}(*args)                                          #       _unmemoized_mime_type(*args)              end                                                                  #     end            end                                                                    #   end          end                                                                      # end                                                                                   #          if private_method_defined?(#{original_method.inspect})                   # if private_method_defined?(:_unmemoized_mime_type)            private #{symbol.inspect}                                              #   private :mime_type          elsif protected_method_defined?(#{original_method.inspect})              # elsif protected_method_defined?(:_unmemoized_mime_type)            protected #{symbol.inspect}                                            #   protected :mime_type          end                                                                      # end, __FILE__, __LINE__ + 1
      end
    end

December 12, 2011

2 thanks

Need to extend class when using this

I had to dig around to find this out - if you want to use memoize somewhere, like an ActiveRecord model, you need to add

extend ActiveSupport::Memoizable

to the class. This doesn’t seem to be explained anywhere (the only docs are 3 year old blog posts anyway).

April 27, 2012 - (>= v3.2.1)

1 thank

Example from Code School

module Tweets

 class ShowPresenter
   extend ActiveSupport::Memoizable

   def initialize(tweet)
     @tweet = tweet
   end

   def username
     @tweet.user.username
   end

   def status
     @tweet.status
   end

   def favorites_count
     @tweet.favorites.count
   end

   memoize :username, :status, :favorites_count

 end
end

From http://railsbest.com/

July 9, 2012

0 thanks

this has been deprecated; replace with Memoist

In Rails 3.2, memoize has been deprecated. In edge Rails, it has been removed.

The commit when it was deprecated: http://github.com/rails/rails/commit/36253916b0b788d6ded56669d37c96ed05c92c5c

A Stack Overflow question about this change: http://stackoverflow.com/q/9132197/578288

I personally disagree with the removal of memoize, and don’t recommend using the `||=` pattern Rails now suggests. The exception is if your entire program only memoizes something once or twice, so it’s not worth including a gem for.

The easiest way to keep using memoize is to use the Memoist gem (http://github.com/matthewrudy/memoist , http://rubygems.org/gems/memoist), which is a simple extraction of ActiveSupport::Memoizable into its own gem.

November 10, 2015