From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2006-12-25T02:25:13+09:00
Subject: Method equality; setting instance variables on Method instances

A few questions about the code below:
1) Why do m1 and m2 have different IDs but compare as equal?
2) Why does m2 invoke the same old functionality when run?
3) Why did my instance_variable_set not 'take'?

I suspect all answers have something to do with where the methods are
being defined/shadowed, but I'll be damned if I can figure them out.

slim:~/Desktop/test gavinkistner$ ls -Flag
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    3 staff   102 Dec 24 10:15 ./
drwx------   34 staff  1156 Dec 24 10:15 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 staff   734 Dec 24 10:20 override.rb


slim:~/Desktop/test gavinkistner$ cat override.rb
class Module
        def override( method_name, &block )
          orig_method = method( method_name )
          new_name = "m#{rand(1000000000)}"
                alias_method new_name, method_name
          define_method( method_name, &block )
    method( method_name ).instance_variable_set( :@__orig_method_name,
new_name )
  end

   def restore( method_name )
     alias_method method_name, method( method_name
).instance_variable_get( :@__orig_method_name )
   end
end

m1 = Kernel.method( :system )
system 'ls'

Kernel.override( :system ){ |code| puts "`#{code}` not allowed"}
m2 = Kernel.method( :system )
system 'ls'

p m1, m2, m1==m2, m1.object_id, m2.object_id
m1.call( 'ls' )
m2.call( 'ls' )

Kernel.restore( :system )
m3 = Kernel.method( :system )
system 'ls'

__END__


slim:~/Desktop/test gavinkistner$ ruby override.rb
override.rb
`ls` not allowed
#<Method: Kernel.system>
#<Method: Kernel.system>
true
953400
953250
override.rb
override.rb
override.rb:11:in `alias_method': nil is not a symbol (TypeError)
        from override.rb:11:in `restore'
        from override.rb:26