From: Michael Morin <uzimonkey@...>
Date: 2010-08-30T09:50:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Broken alias behavior in Ruby 1.9.2?

On 8/29/2010 8:04 PM, Tron Fu wrote:
> Thank you for your reply. However, your suggestion resulted in
> SystemStackError: stack level too deep
>
> I'm guessing that it is not working in 1.9.2 because Base64 is no longer
> included with 1.9 and there is something odd going on with the
> ActiveSupport's version of it.
>
> Tron

As far as I can tell, 1.9.2 ships with Base64.

I suspect you're having trouble because of Base64's use of 
module_function.  This creates copies of the original methods, so it 
will be difficult to overload like this.

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