From: hipster <hipster@...4all.nl>
Date: 2001-07-06T16:22:29+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17394] Re: Adding a method to a class at the top-level

On Fri, 06 Jul 2001  06:24:15 +0900, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Comrades,
> 
> 
> I'm looking for the "fastest" way to add a method to an existing class, in
> a Ruby program.
> 
> At first I thought there would be an elegant one-liner to do that, but
> unfortunately, the following adds a Class method, not an Instance method:
> 
> def Demo.aClassMethod; end
> 
> 
> So the best way so far is:
> 
> class Demo; def aclassMethod; end; end

how about:

class Aap
end

a = Aap.new

Aap.class_eval("def noot; puts 'mies'; end")
Aap.class_eval { def wim; puts 'zus'; end }

a.noot     #=> mies
a.wim      #=> zus


        Michel