From: HarryO <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-11-17T04:23:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:25610] Aliases for class methods

Say I wanted to write my own version of File#open that adds some
functionality, but that will eventually want to call the original.

Is there some way I can add an alias to allow me to do that?  I tried
doing something like, but I get an error telling me there's no method
called "original".  Obviously, this is just a test to see whether it's
doable before I write the real code  :-).

   class File
      alias original open

      def File.open(*arguments)
         original(arguments)
      end
   end

   out = File.open("test", "w")

   out.puts "Hello, world!"

   out.close