From: Kresimir Bojcic <kresimir.bojcic@...>
Date: 2011-04-28T23:15:35+09:00
Subject: Re: where's the best place to dynamically add singleton method?

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I think you can achieve functionality that you desire by using mixins,
modules and include statement... like this


module CoolMethods
  def my_mental_method
     ....
  end
end

class UnfortunateUserOfCoolMethod

   include CoolMethods
   ....

 end

Also if you need method on a class you can use extend intstead of
include....


Best Regards,

Kresimir Bojcic

www.kresimirbojcic.com


On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Iain Barnett <iainspeed@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If I've got a simple bit of initialisation code
>
>    def initialize( blah )
>      @listener = Blah.new blah
>    end
>
> and I'd like to add a singleton method to instance (because I don't want to
> monkey patch the Blah library) where's the best place to do that? I know I
> could do:
>
>    def initialize( blah )
>      @listener = Blah.new blah
>      def @listener.my_mental_method
>        self.give_it_up! "quickly"
>      end
>    end
>
> but is this a good place to do it, or is there something more
> eloquent/perfomant? I'd like all instances, wherever they are created, to
> have this method, so is there a better way altogether?
>
> Just wondering.
>
> Regards,
> Iain
>

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