From: Roland Swingler <roland.swingler@...>
Date: 2007-01-07T01:45:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting existing context when defining a singleton method (class << obj)

Great!

> Yes:

Thanks for the (very speedy) response.

> Hopefully there will be a method in Ruby 1.9/2.0 that will let you
> grab an object's singleton class, so you could do:
>
>    obj.singleton_class.class_eval   # etc.

I guess you can have this in ruby 1.8 by doing

class Object
  def singleton_class
    class << self
      self
    end
  end
end

Some code that I've seen around is now much clearer... thanks again.

Cheers,
Roland