From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-08-30T05:58:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Adding instance methods to class at runtime

Hi --

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Jon A. Lambert wrote:

> I want to add instance methods to a class at runtine.

There's no other time to do it :-)

> $ cat testcmds.rb
> module Bar
> def hello
>   puts "hello called"
> end
> end
>
> class Foo
> end
>
> Foo.include(Bar)

You can reopen the class and do the include:

   class Foo
     include Bar
   end

or you can use send:

   Foo.send("include", Bar)


David

-- 
David A. Black
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