From: Ron M <rm_rails@...>
Date: 2005-08-27T04:33:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send

calamitas@advalvas.be wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Ron M wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone think of what I could look for so I
>> can call y using send or where I should look for
>> further information to understand why it's not working?
> 
> 
> Maybe it has something to do with method_missing. I suspect object es 
> has a private method #y which requires one argument. This is the one 
> es.send(:y) calls (as it can call private methods). However when you 
> call the method as just es.y, it is not found and method_missing is 
> called which happens to handle y as a method with no arguments.
> 

Ah yes!!! That seems to be the case.

It also seems to be a reasonable workaround for me.

 >> es.send(:method_missing,:y)
=> 30.468257171342
 >>

Thanks!