From: Avi Bryant <avi@...4.com>
Date: 2001-09-16T07:16:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21244] Re: Redefining constants

On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Johann Hibschman wrote:

> 
> >>>>> "ts" == ts  <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:
> 
>     ts>  Well, you're trying to change the class hierarchy. See
>     ts> [ruby-talk:20766] about this
> 
>     ts>  http://www.ruby-talk.com/20766
> 
> Thanks for the reference.  So the answer is that I can't?  This is
> inconvenient for interactive development, but I can work around it.
> Why isn't there a way to simply unbind a class name or other
> identifier, then redefine it?

If you change

  class Foo < Bar
    ...
  end

to

  Foo = Class.new(Bar)
  class Foo
   ...
  end

everywhere in your code, then it should have the behavior you're looking
for, I think.