From: Tom Werner <tom@...>
Date: 2006-07-14T09:04:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Preferred monkeypatching technique

Daniel Berger wrote:
>
> Perhaps add a namespace?
>

Eric Hodel wrote:
>
> You just described subclasses:
>

Well, the idea is that the 3rd party software is going to be using 
whatever classes it has always used, so just creating a subclass doesn't 
get me anywhere because the 3rd party app (i.e. Rails) doesn't give a 
hoot about my BigNozzleFiretruck.

Similarly, creating a separate namespace via a module has the same 
problem. I can do that all day long but the 3rd party app won't care (or 
is there a way to MAKE it care?).

It occurs to me that the use of GUIDs might be in order:

alias_method :put_out_fire_baee44c012cb11dbac5d0800200c9a66, :put_out_fire

Ugly but functional?

Tom

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