LazyGenerate: How to lazily generate properties in ActiveRecord

At times in the Posterous days we wanted to add new properties but a migration would be prohibitively expensive given a large corpus of data.

Here's a simple module you can include in your ActiveRecord objects to do just that — lazily generate potentially costly computation and save it to an object only when it is actually called. 

Dragons in these hills — but sometimes you want that. We're going to steer clear of these kinds of hacks for Posthaven, but as a minor exercise in metaprogramming maybe this'll be useful in the future:

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