From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-08-25T08:39:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Extending Code Cleanly

On 8/24/05, David Brady <ruby_talk@shinybit.com> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
> >Sometimes, as in #to_foo, it may be appropriate, but that should
> >*probably* be done with:
> >
> >  require 'foo'
> >  require 'foo/string'
> >
> >
> I *REALLY* like this idiom!
> 
> require 'mymodule/standardmodule' # allow mymodule to make injections to
> standardmodule.
> 
> Nifty!

Thanks. I didn't invent it, but it seems the *best* way to solve what
I'd said re: extending cleanly.

If Rails wanted to do this (as a library, not a framework), then it
might be require 'activerecord/date/fixnum' or something like that.
But that's just what *I* would do, and not what everyone would do.

-austin
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