From: Mat Schaffer <schapht@...>
Date: 2006-12-24T12:08:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Reverting module changes

On 12/23/06, Michal Kwiatkowski <constant.beta@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to mock standard Kernel.system with my own method and then
> revert back to the original version. I was able to do the former, but
> not the latter. Currently I'm overwriting Kernel.system method
> definition with:
>
> def system_should_return what
>     Kernel.module_eval "def system(*args) #{what.inspect} end"
> end
>
> I don't a have idea how going back to the original state can be done.
> Thanks in advance for any help on this.

Maybe there's something more elegant.  But I'd first alias the
original method, redefine it, then when I was done, I'd redefine it
again to just call the alias.
-Mat