From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2013-07-23T16:01:04+09:00
Subject: Re: How can we create instance method and class methods at runtime in ruby?

On Tuesday 23 July 2013 Love U Ruby wrote
> Sorry for creating the confusions:-
> 
> Here I tried once more to explain what I was looking for:
> 
> class Foo
>   def test
>     p "hi"
>   end
> end
> foo = Foo.new
> foo.test # => "hi"
> Foo.define_method(:test){p "hello"}
> #  private method `define_method' called for Foo:Class (NoMethodError)
> 
> Any method is there to re-define the method `test` without re-opening
> the class in runtime?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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You can use class_eval:

Foo.class_eval do
  define_method(:test){p 'hello'}
end

or you can use send:

Foo.send :define_method, :test, &proc{p 'hello'}

I hope this helps

Stefano