From: Cere Davis <cere@...>
Date: 2004-07-13T07:02:35+09:00
Subject: can't override a cgi function, please help

This is soooo driving me crazy!

I'm just trying to override the checkbox function on the CGI ruby 
library and can not.  Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Simply:

require 'cgi'

class << CGI
	def checkbox(name="",val=nil,checked=nil)
		puts "asdf"
		puts @params[name]
	end
end

cgi=CGI.new('html3')
cgi.out() do
cgi.html() do
cgi.body() do
     cgi.form("get")  do
         cgi.checkbox('box','true',"checd") +
         cgi.br +
     cgi.submit("Okey Dokey?")
     end
end
end
end

then I run

!./mycgipro stuff=dddd


but it doesn't print out the "asdf" garbage that I overroad the function 
with...

What's up?  Does anyone know how to do this.  I'm new to overriding in Ruby.

Related to this is the "input(attributes)" function but I can't seem to 
trace what this is doing or where the input function even comes from.

Thanks,
Cere