Rails Observer Alternatives for 4.0

Question

With Observers officially removed from Rails 4.0, I\'m curious what other developers are using in their place. (Other than using the extracted gem.) While Observers were cer

Answer 1

Wisper is a great solution. My personal preference for callbacks is that they're fired by the models but the events are only listened to when a request comes in i.e. I don't want callbacks fired while I'm setting up models in tests etc. but I do want them fired whenever controllers are involved. This is really easy to setup with Wisper because you can tell it to only listen to events inside a block.

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  around_filter :register_event_listeners

  def register_event_listeners(&around_listener_block)
    Wisper.with_listeners(UserListener.new) do
      around_listener_block.call
    end
  end        
end

class User
  include Wisper::Publisher
  after_create{ |user| publish(:user_registered, user) }
end

class UserListener
  def user_registered(user)
    Analytics.track("user:registered", user.analytics)
  end
end