From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-10-01T06:06:03+09:00
Subject: Re: How to prevent overwriting methods by accident?

Josh Cheek wrote:
>> But is there a way to call the original method instead of just quitting
>> out?
>>
> The super keyword does this

No it doesn't; not if you redefine a method in the same class.

You need to use alias.

class String
  alias :orig_length :length
  def length
    puts "Whee!"
    orig_length
  end
end
puts "abc".length
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