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09 Sep '12, 8am

Jay Fields’ Thoughts: Class Reopening Hints

Aman King left the following comment:I've always liked Ruby's open class feature but have also wondered how do you keep track of all the changes made to the class definition during runtime? ... There isn't an easy way (that I know of) out of the box to know what files made what changes to your objects. But, are a few things that you can do that may give you hints as to where behavior is coming from. Use modules instead of adding behavior directly. On my current project we needed to add a % method to symbol. You can accomplish this with the following code.class Symbol def %(arg) ... end end The above code does what you need, but leaves no hint that you've made a change to Symbol. An alternative solution is to define a module and include that module in Symbol.module SymbolExtension def %(arg) ... end end Symbol.send :include, SymbolExtension Granted, this isn't a huge hint, ...

Full article: http://blog.jayfields.com/2007/01/class-reopening-hints.html

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