From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2002-04-25T15:35:56+09:00
Subject: appending methods to class inside module

Hi,

Please observe the following code:

module Dog
  class String
    def bark
      puts "Woof!"
    end
  end
end

include Dog

foo = "bar"
foo.bark

When run, this happens:

./fooz:14: undefined method `bark' for "bar":String (NameError)

For some reason, the Dog module is preventing the bark method from
being appended to the String class.

My question is: how can I get String#bark to be defined, so that I can
then call the bark method on foo?

Ian
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