From: Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-06-05T01:57:32+09:00
Subject: remove_method question

Hi all,

Searched the archives but didn't quite find what I was looking for.

Let's say I have a class:

class Foo
   attr_reader :val1, :val2
   def initialize
      @val1 = "hello"
      @val2 = "world"
   end
end

Then, let's say I have a subclass of Foo, and I want to remove the
"val1" method.  How would I do it?

class Bar < Foo
   remove_method(:val1)      # Fails, says 'val1' is not defined in Bar
(?)
   self.remove_method(:val1) # Fails, says private method
   class << self
      remove_method(:val1)   # Fails, says 'val1' is not defined in
Class
   end
end

I also tried this within Bar's initialize() method with no luck.

Any ideas?

Dan