From: Jeffrey Dik <jeffrey.dik@...>
Date: 2005-11-10T04:08:02+09:00
Subject: Re: method_missing

What about not using method_missing and catching the NoMethodError
exception in the appropriate place?

Hope that helps,
Jeff

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:56:27AM +0900, Dirk Meijer wrote:
> hi everyone,
> i've got a small problem and can't figure out how to solve it.
> in my program, you can enter commands, and then it checks if those commands
> exist within a module..
> if the command does not exist, it should tell the user that, this gets me to
> this:
>  def method_missing(method,*trash)
> print "Command #{method} not found!\n"
> end
>  but when the user enters a command with an argument (only one argument is
> read), it prints the following:
> Command <argument> not found!
> Command <method> not found!
> which doesn't look very nice.. how would i solve this?
>  greetings, Dirk.