Rails: around_* callbacks

Question

I have read the documentation at http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Callbacks.html, but don't understand when the around_* callbacks are triggered in relation to before_* and after_*.

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer 1

around_* callbacks are invoked before the action, then when you want to invoke the action itself, you yield to it, then continue execution. That's why it's called around

The order goes like this: before, around, after.

So, a typical around_save would look like this:

def around_save
   #do something...
   yield #saves
   #do something else...
end