From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-08-15T17:21:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Dear RubyGems: Perhaps a better way to override require...

Trans ha scritto:
> Learned something new pertaining to this today. You can override
> require:
> 
>   module Kernel
>     def require
>       #...
>     end
>   end
> 
> And yet still access the original funtionality via the module-method:
> 
>   Kernel.require( ... )
> 
> Very handy.

just use super:

def require file
  new stuff
  super
end

the problem is that you can't stack overriding methods, you always get 
back  to the original one