From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-10-01T19:00:57+09:00
Subject: Re: How to prevent overwriting methods by accident?

Jes炭s Gabriel y Gal叩n wrote:
> Shouldn't we be using respond_to? instead of method_defined? or
> methods.include?.

respond_to? only works on instances of objects, not when you're within 
the class.

You could do "new.respond_to? ..." but if the initialize method needs 
arguments, you'll have to provide them.
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