From: Ruby Newbee <rubynewbee@...>
Date: 2010-02-04T12:50:08+09:00
Subject: Re: hooking subscript operations in a hash

Hello,

I have two questions.

>
> class RalphMod < Hash
>  def []=(index, value)
>    p index
>    p value
>    if index == 'PATH_INFO' and value == '/undefined'
>      puts 'found it!'
>    end
>    super index, value

what's the "super" here? is it coming from which object?



>  end
> end
>
> env = RalphMod.new()
> env['X'] = 'Y'
> env['PATH_INFO'] = '/undefined'
>

Is env['X'] = 'Y' the same as env[]=('X','Y') ?
Since you defined a method with def []= so I think env[]=('X','Y') is
easier for understanding.

Thanks.