From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-02-01T03:06:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Overriding methods in inherited classes

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Travis Whitton wrote:

> It looked promising, but it didn't work...

eg/ruby > cat scgi.rb
require 'cgi'
class SCGI < CGI
 module QueryExtension
   def [](*args)
     if @params[*args]
       return @params[*args][0]
     end
   end
 end
  include QueryExtension
end
p SCGI.new['foo']


~/eg/ruby > ruby -v
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-01-30) [i686-linux]

eg/ruby > ruby sgci.rb
(offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input)
foo=bar
"bar"


~/eg/ruby > ruby -v
ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-01) [i686-linux]

eg/ruby > ruby scgi.rb
(offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input)
foo=bar
["bar"]


looks like the behavior of cgi[*args] changed from 1.6.8 to 1.8.0.  you will
have to work around this in 1.6.8.

-a

>
> travis@travis travis $ cat scgitest.rb
> require 'scgi'
> s = SCGI.new
> p s["foo"]
>
> travis@travis travis $ ruby scgitest.rb
> (offline mode: enter name=value pairs on standard input)
> foo=bar
> ["bar"]
>
> -Travis
>
>

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