hi,
i was wondering why the following line of codes were written -
i found it from action_controller/test_process.rb file.

def self.included(base)
# execute the request simulating a specific http method and set/
volley the response
%w( get post put delete head ).each do |method|
base.class_eval <<-EOV, __FILE__, __LINE__
def #{method}(action, parameters = nil, session = nil, flash
= nil)
@request.env['REQUEST_METHOD'] = "#{method.upcase}" if
defined?(@request)
process(action, parameters, session, flash)
end
EOV
end
end

i believe, this was trying to make this code more DRY'ed, but this
think might be confusion for other sufferer.
because this "get, post, put, delete, head" methods are not reflected
during RDoc compilation.

unless we get some solution like "monitor loaded class behavior and
render documentation based upon their meta information" for example
-
%w( get post put delete head ).each do |method|
base.class_eval <<-EOV, __FILE__, __LINE__
desc "delegating process method"
def #{method}(action, parameters = nil, session = nil,
flash = nil)
@request.env['REQUEST_METHOD'] = "#{method.upcase}" if
defined?(@request)
process(action, parameters, session, flash)
end
EOV
end

i would really love to see this kind of code is broken into the
following code -
# delegating process method
def post(action, parameters = nil, session = nil, flash = nil)
@request.env['REQUEST_METHOD'] = "#{method.upcase}" if defined?
(@request)
process(action, parameters, session, flash)
end

# delegating process method
def get(action, parameters = nil, session = nil, flash = nil)
@request.env['REQUEST_METHOD'] = "#{method.upcase}" if defined?
(@request)
process(action, parameters, session, flash)
end
....

best wishes,