Is there a way to override the << operator in Ruby?

Question

I'm trying to do something like:

account.users << User.new

But I need users to be a method on an account. So I've tried things like:

def users<<(obj)

But I've had no luck with that. Is this even possible to do in Ruby? I would assume so because the ActiveRecord relationships seem to work this way in Rails.

Answer 1

Check this answer: Rails: Overriding ActiveRecord association method

[this code is completely from the other answer, here for future searchers]

has_many :tags, :through => :taggings, :order => :name do
    def << (value)
      "overriden" #your code here
    end     
  end