Overriding/Extending Country class with custom methods

[exocode]

Hi there, I wanna be able to extend the Country class by my custom methods.
But it seems Ruby/Rails is taking the Country class from the gem and not from my models.

Creating a country.rb in my app/models directory with the following content:

require "countries/version"

require 'iso3166'
require 'countries/mongoid' if defined?(Mongoid)

class Country < ISO3166::Country

  @country_index = []

  def to_s
    self.name
  end
  
  def subdivision_index
       # my content here
      puts "TEST"
  end

Calling

c = Country.search("AT")
c.subdivision_index

raises an error

c.subdivision_index
NoMethodError: undefined method `subdivision_index' for #<Country:0x007fe910800bc8>
Did you mean?  subdivisions

How can I achieve that?

The reason is, that I wanna save all countries in a db and make them searchable via ElasticSearch.
Thank you!

[rposborne]

Hm.

1. What version are you running on?
2. Are you requiring the global adapter in your gemfile?

[exocode]

Hm it seems "countries" gem had some progress in the last years :-)
I am using a custom branch, with some subdivisions added by myself. In order to switch to the actual hexorx version all of these subdivisions should be merged into the "original" one (yours). Is that possible to make a pull request? (all my added stuff is conform to the one of hexorx)

[rposborne]

@exocode We always accept PR's for new content, as long as it's valid, and not political charged.

[rposborne]

@exocode going to close this. Please reopen if you still need help on this.