From: pharrington <xenogenesis@...>
Date: 2010-02-04T13:15:09+09:00
Subject: Re: hooking subscript operations in a hash

On Feb 3, 10:50 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <mar...@marnen.org> wrote:
> Ralph Shnelvar wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Is there any way to do it for all hash subscript operations?
>
> Using include instead of extend should do the trick.  You may also need
> to alias the old Hash#[]= and then call it from your new one.
>
> Best,
> -- 
> Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org
> mar...@marnen.org
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

eh as Rick already pointed out includ'ing a module will insert the
module above the including class, so the original class's method still
gets called.

You'll need to "monkey patch" Hash's []=, and alias the original []=
prior-to.