From: dseiler@...
Date: 2007-03-09T08:10:12+09:00
Subject: Re: how to aliase a module method?

On Mar 8, 5:34 am, Xavier Noria <f...@hashref.com> wrote:
> I am trying to aliase a module method to some local alias (to ease
> some template). I've tried a few variations of
>
>    alias escape_latex MyUtils.escape_latex
>
> without luck so far. I could mixin the module or write a wrapper, but
> I'd like to know how to accomplish that with alias, or that it is not
> possible if that's the case.

It's possible, sort of.  Try

module TheModule
  instance_eval "alias escape_latex MyUtils.escape_latex"
end

I use a similar technique (originally suggested by Minero Aoki,
according to my notes) to replace Thread.critical and
Thread.critical=.  I've only tested it in 1.8.2 but I don't think
anything's broken it since then.

> -- fxn