From: Ben Rayfield <redmine@...>
Date: 2009-02-14T02:29:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22052] [Bug #1140] Parsing error gives method_missing a nonexistant method name

Issue #1140 has been updated by Ben Rayfield.


Please close this as Not-A-Bug.

I apologise for not finding this earlier:

"Methods that end with an equals sign (=) are special because Ruby allows them to be invoked using assignment syntax. If an object o has a method named x=, then the following two lines of code do the very same thing:
o.x=(1) # Normal method invocation syntax
o.x = 1 #Method invocation through assignment"

http://books.google.com/books?id=jcUbTcr5XWwC&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&dq=ruby+method+equals&source=web&ots=fHDkwd7ybC&sig=nI4zpxc836knAK1hIx0rXXiFcOQ&hl=en&ei=MqyVSfPGB4risAPh--W-Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA6,M1

I have fixed my problem by putting the method_missing in a class instead of in global code where it replaced the method_missing in element.rb.
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