From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2009-03-02T23:27:24+09:00
Subject: Re: What does this statement do?

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Stanislaw Wozniak <stan@wozniak.com> wrote:
> Stanislaw Wozniak wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I have been wondering what does this statement do and what does it set.
>> It interferes with my methods_missing handler:
>>
>> {code}
>> class MyClass
>>
>>    something = "something else"
>>
>> end
>> {code}
>
> I guess this is assigning a string to a variable that is created in the
> MyClass scope. But my problem is that I have some setter methods that
> I'm using through method_missing, but method_missing is never triggered
> because it is assigning stuff just like in the example above.
> --
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>
>

That statement is the same as calling MyClass.something=("something else")

If you want method_missing to catch it, you need to define a
method_missing on the class itself, like this:

class MyClass

  def self.method_missing(name, *args)
  end

end

Jason