From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-10-24T10:48:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Override Time#to_s -- how?

On 10/23/06, Ben Winekur <ben.vinegar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I'd like to override the Time#to_s function to parse Time objects a
> specific way -- how can I do this from within my script? (Without
> modifying the Time class itself)
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>

What do you mean by 'without modifying the Time class itself'?  Isn't
that precisely what you want to do?

All classes are 'open' in Ruby, so you can simply do:

class Time
  def to_s
    "blah"
  end
end

If you need access to the original method as well, you can do this:

class Time
  alias_method :original_to_s, :to_s
  def to_s
     "The old to_s method would have said: " + self.original_to_s
  end
end