From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-08-22T03:58:42+09:00
Subject: Re: const_missing

Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> I just tried to use const_missing (which I think is a
> neat idea).
> 
> Shouldn't it work at the top level? Am I doing something
> wrong?
> 
>   def const_missing
>     "not found"
>   end
> 
>   p FOO
> 
> The above gives an error.

I guess #const_missing gets sent to the class, not to the instance, 
since constants belong to the class. So make it a class method:

irb(main):001:0> def Object::const_missing(c); puts "missing: #{c}"; end
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> AAA
missing: AAA
=> nil