From: Marc Heiler <shevegen@...>
Date: 2011-10-26T23:04:29+09:00
Subject: Modify only a .rb file, but not other .rb files, while still extending core classes?

Given is a small .rb file.

In that .rb file, class Array is modified and a convenience
method is added.

class Array

  def rand

I want to limit this modification to only that specific
.rb file though.

When I use that .rb file in a larger project, I do not want
the modification of class Array to leak out into other .rb
files. Is there a way to limit the scope of the modification?

Of course I can define a method simply and call that, but:

  array.rand

Looks better to my eyes than:

  rand(array)

So I would prefer to be able to do only the array.rand.

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