From: bhbrinckerhoff@... (Ben)
Date: 2004-11-07T17:13:38+09:00
Subject: calling binding() within a module method (for mixin)?????

I've been trying to write a method that can dynamically mixin a module
to a class. I tried the following code:
#=========================================
module MixinUtils
def MixinUtils.includeMixin(className,mixinName,vars)
	evalStr= <<-END
		class #{className.to_s}
			include #{mixinName.to_s}
		end
	END
	eval(evalStr, vars)
end
end

module Foo
	def printFoo
		puts "foo"
	end
end

class Array
	def someMethod
		self.each do |item|
			MixinUtils.includeMixin(item.class.to_s,"Foo",binding)
			item.printFoo
		end
	end
end

[1,2,3].someMethod
#======================================

But running this gives

question.rb:22:in `something': undefined method `printFoo' for
1:Fixnum (NoMethodError)
        from question.rb:20:in `each'
        from question.rb:20:in `something'
        from question.rb:31

But if I take out the '[1,nil,true].something' and append

a=1
MixinUtils.includeMixin("Fixnum","Foo",binding)
a.printFoo

it produces

foo

as expected. Why the difference? Why does calling 'binding' inside a
block produce different results? Thanks in advance...

Ben