From: Marat Kamenschikov <buhiyhi@...>
Date: 2010-03-27T07:35:16+09:00
Subject: Re: changing method behavior depending on context

Thanks Jesus and Robert! But the case is quite more complex because (I 
forgot to mention in original message) I'm not calling B#save directly - 
it's a part of a big class which builds many objects and the option is 
either replace all .save with .save(false) or to make some monkey magic. 
The B class might go into some lib or plugin (but not sure yet) so I 
need to find a way for this case also.

My friend and I came to this kind of solution:
class B
  def initialize
    @a=A.new
    @a.instance_eval <<-EOF
      alias :old_save :save
      def save(validate = false)
        old_save(validate)
      end
    EOF
  end

The only thing that this would save without validation only one time, if 
there'd be smth like
class B
  def initialize
    @a1 = A.new
    @a2 = A.new
  end
  def save
    @a1.save
    @a2.save # it wouldn't work here or I'd need to define same methods 
n times
  end
end

I will agree if you say that doesn't worth that but that becomes a ruby 
riddle - is it powerful enough to change behaviour depending on context? 
I think it is. Curious how.

Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 03/26/2010 05:11 PM, Marat Kamenschikov wrote:
>>   def save(validate = true)
>>     @a.save
>> a way to redef a method inside of other class' scope?
> What's wrong with doing
> 
> class B
>    # something very crazy
>    def initialize
>      @a = A.new
>    end
>    def save
>      @a.save false
>    end
> end
> 
> as Jesus suggested?  Even if you don't do that you could do
> 
> class A
>    def initialize(owner = nil)
>      @owner = owner
>    end
> 
>    def save
>      B === @owner ? "VALID" : "INVALID"
>    end
> end
> 
> class B
>    # something not so crazy
>    def initialize
>      @a = A.new self
>    end
>    def save
>      @a.save
>    end
> end
> 
> Note: meta programming magic also makes code harder to read.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>   robert

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