From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-11-01T06:25:33+09:00
Subject: Two Issues (open-uri's respond_to? and autoload's require)

Hi--

I'd like to bring attention to two bugs in hopes the can be fixed in
the next release cycle; both of which are causing me issues at the
moment.

The first is open-uri's use of respond_to? instead of is_a? to test if
a module has been used to extend an object. I recently brought this up
on ruby-talk:275190.

The second is that autoload doesn't appear to use the the normal
#require method when it is triggered. So one can't override #require
and have autoload reflect the new behavior. Either it needs to use
#require, or it needs to have it's own special method that can be
overrode.

For the last issue I added a ticket to Ruby's bug tracker. I did not
do so the for the first however, since it's a very easy problem to
fix.

Thanks,
T.