From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-07-17T05:49:40+09:00
Subject: Re: alias_method problem

mengx@nielsenmedia.com wrote:
> But if for some reason the class is reloaded, The "oldone" will
> point to the "newone" that is defined as above(calling the "oldone")
> instead of the originally defined one.
> Calling "newone" after the reloading ends up with stack overflow.
> 
> I assume this had been brought up before. Any fix or workaround?

It was discussed starting at:
   http://ruby-talk.org/34131

What about putting the alias operation in a different file from the rest 
of the class def?

=== A-alias.rb ===

class A
   alias ...
end

=== A.rb ===

require "A-alias"

class A
   def ...
   end
end

============

This way, you can always reload A.rb without re-aliasing.