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

In some cases I simply use Active Support Instrumentation

ActiveSupport::Notifications.instrument "my.custom.event", this: :data do
  # do your stuff here
end

ActiveSupport::Notifications.subscribe "my.custom.event" do |*args|
  data = args.extract_options! # {:this=>:data}
end