From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-09-13T04:10:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Global 'include <Some_Module>' conflicts with OpenStruct


On Sep 12, 2008, at 02:37 , Alexey Petrushin wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I need to include methods from module 'A' into global scope. But i  
> have
> faced problem, it does interfere with OpenStruct.
> The Code:
> # ------------------------------
> require 'ostruct'
>
> module A
>  def text; puts "The 'text' method from the 'A' module." end
> end
> include A
>
> os = OpenStruct.new(:text => "Text from the 'OpenStruct'")
>
> puts os.text #=> The 'text' method from the 'A' module. \n nil
> # ------------------------------
> How it can be solved?
>
> Desired behavior should be:
> puts os.text #=> Text from the 'OpenStruct'

OpenStruct works via method_missing... if the method isn't missing, it  
isn't missing... You'd probably have to add an explicit method on your  
os object to override the Kernel#text. Looking at the source, that  
appears to be what #new_ostruct_member is for.