From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2005-12-13T02:34:58+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.8.4 rc breaks alias_method/rails in bad ways

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, nobuyoshi nakada wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At Sat, 10 Dec 2005 05:07:00 +0900,
> Ara.T.Howard wrote in [ruby-core:06864]:
>> it seems the original instanciate is lost in this whole method shuffling
>> approach.
>>
>> this code works in 1.8.2 and 1.8.3.  unless the bevhaiour of alias_methods has
>> changed - hard to beleive - this seems to be a bad bug.  i've tried to distill
>> this to a simple example with no luck.  so i'm afaid  there is more to it that
>> the above.  all you need do to reproduce is setup a rails dir, create a model,
>> and run YourModel.find :all.
>
> Don't you have simpler script which can reproduce it?

believe me - i tried for about an hour and gave up...  i may have a bit of
time this week, but probably not.  on the upside it takes less than five
minutes to setup to show the bug and one must write only a line or two... even
though the entire project is many lines.

-a
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