From: Jean Helou <jean.helou@...>
Date: 2006-10-02T22:41:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating dynamically named singleton methods. Syntax question.

However this will define the given method for all new instances of
obj.class (MyThing in my example) which are created after this code is
executed, which is not what the OP seemed to want.

jean

ps: in my example :test can be a variable and String.to_sym is your friend.

On 10/2/06, Martin Coxall <pseudo.meta@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/2/06, Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/2/06, Luke Stark <Luke.Stark@mathworks.com> wrote:
> > > You may create singleton methods like so:
> > >
>
>
> I'll have one more go. This time I'll get it right. ;p
>
> obj.class.instance_eval do
>    define_method(:method_name) do |*args|
>       # Method goes here
>    end
> end
>
> N.B. this actually works this time, because I tried it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin
>
>