From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-01-08T12:45:42+09:00
Subject: Re: $cgi = CGI.new w/ mod_ruby dangerous or acceptable?

On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, 1:45:06 PM, Tom wrote:

> okay, i'm implementing singleton pattern for CGI. simple appraoch:

>         require 'singleton'
>         class CGI
>                 include Singleton
>         end

> now CGI.new dosen't work and one must use CGI.instance. but is there a way 
> just to redefine #new to do the same thing rather than having a different 
> method? i'd rather not have to go around changing #new to #instance? seems 
> like i've delt with this before but i don't remember what i came up with.

#new and #instance mean different things.  I think you should avoid
confusing them.

> also perhaps i should subclass CGI for this and create CGISingleton rather 
> then directly altering CGI itself.

That would be better, I think.

> some thoughts on the best approach to take would be greatly welcome. thanks.

I can't think of any disadvantage to the subclassing approach.

Gavin