From: Daniel Sheppard <daniels@...>
Date: 2007-11-23T11:30:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Call overwritten method of included module?

> module MyModule
>   def my_method
>     return "my module rocks!"
>   end
> end
> 
> class MyClass
>   include(MyModule)
> 
>   def my_method
>     return "my class rocks!"
>   end
> end
> 
> Is there a way to call MyModule::my_method from within 
> MyClass? "super"
> sadly doesn't work...

You'd need to alias the old method:

class MyClass
  include(MyModule)
  alias :old_my_method :my_method
  def my_method
    old_my_method
  end
end

(If you're using rails/activesupport, you'd probably use
alias_method_chain to simplify things)

Dan.