From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2010-11-29T03:40:22+09:00
Subject: Refinements

<a href="http://timeless.judofyr.net/refinements-in-ruby">Refinements</
a> are similar to the namespace approach proposed long ago. The key
difference being #using to active the patches. Based on the older
idea, I wonder if the #refine method is actually necessary. Would this
not do as well?

  module TimeExtensions
    class Fixnum
      def minutes; self * 60; end
    end
  end

  class MyApp
    using TimeExtensions

    def initialize
      p 2.minutes
    end
  end