From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2006-10-24T12:38:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Override Time#to_s -- how?

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On 2006.10.24 10:48, Wilson Bilkovich wrote:
> 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)
> >
> 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

Time#to_s is one of the core methods I have absolutely no qualms
overriding but if you would rather not, there is always #strftime.

  ri Time#strftime

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