From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2007-08-07T05:13:31+09:00
Subject: Re: class String in a module

Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I have a module file which contains 'class String' and a couple of 
> custom methods for me to add to Object::String. So I do something like:
> require 'mystring' or load or whatever. It doesn't extend String's 
> functionallity... no doubt because the modules contents are isolated in 
> their own namespace... How to get around that?

Use the global scope operator (at least I think that's what it's called):

module M
   class ::String
     def backwards; reverse; end
   end
end

puts "24".backwards  # => 42


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