From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2006-05-24T23:00:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Overriding Time.now

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On 5/24/06, Robert MannI <robmnl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I have a unit test where I need to simulate a different system time.
>
> Hence I need Time.now to return a different time than now, say, now + 1
> month
>
> How can I do this?
>
> I tried aliasing Time now, but I don't know how to alias class methods.
>
> class Time
> alias_method 'self.original_now', 'self.now'
> end
>
> How can I alias this --or-- is there any better way to simulate a
> different
> time on calling Time.now?
>
>
> Tips and ideas are greatly appreciated,
> Rob


Hi

class Time
    class << self
        alias_method :n, :now
    end
end

hope that helps
Cheers
Robert


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