add masochistic? predicate method for ActiveRecord::Base.connection

load masochism classes during application initialization

init.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+if defined? ActiveRecord
+  require 'active_reload/connection_proxy'
+end

lib/active_reload/connection_proxy.rb

@@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ def respond_to?(method)
     def methods
       super | current.methods
     end
+
+    def masochistic?
+      true
+    end
   end
 
   module ActiveRecordConnectionMethods
@@ -160,7 +164,7 @@ def self.included(base)
 
     # Send observed_method(object) if the method exists.
     def update_with_master(observed_method, object)
-      if object.respond_to?(:connection) && object.connection.respond_to?(:with_master)
+      if object.respond_to?(:connection) && object.connection.masochistic?
         object.connection.with_master do
           update_without_master(observed_method, object)
         end
@@ -170,3 +174,9 @@ def update_with_master(observed_method, object)
     end
   end
 end
+
+ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::AbstractAdapter.class_eval do
+  def masochistic?
+    false
+  end
+end

test/connection_proxy_test.rb

@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ def test_connection_is_a_proxy
     assert_equal 'ActiveReload::ConnectionProxy', connection.class.name
   end
 
+  def test_masochistic
+    assert connection.masochistic?
+  end
+
   def test_reads_go_to_slave
     @slave.expects(:select_rows).with('SELECT').returns(['bar'])
     assert_equal ['bar'], connection.select_rows('SELECT')