Or perhaps you need to monkey patch a class you own.
Ruby monkey patch private method.
So you have to have a way to quickly learn those changes when you jump into a new codebase.
But just like monkey patching alias method chain got overused and its problems started to become obvious.
Ruby does supply the private class method.
You have to know where your monkey patches live.
The method names it generates are confusing which makes errors hard to find and debug.
I mostly follow rails monkey patching convention.
Range and quartiles and spread e g variance and standard deviation.
The reason your original approach doesn t work is that instead of monkey patching array class you implemented a new stylable array class note the namespace.
Another reason to question the def self method notation is the ability to define private and protected methods.
A collection of helpful methods and monkey patches for arrays hash enumerables strings objects dates in ruby.
The difference between this library and others is that all monkey patching is performed in an opt in way because you shouldnt be using methods you dont know about anyways.
Every app with core patches feels a little bit different.
In ruby a monkey patch mp is any dynamic modification to a class and is often used as a synonym for dynamically modifying any class add new or overwrite existing methods at runtime.
Mean median mode dispersion e g.
Monkey patching is a powerful feature of ruby however it affects globally in a program.
If you re running ruby 2 0 and you don t want to monkey patch array globally you could create custom class that inherits from array.
This gem calculates descriptive statistics including measures of central tendency e g.
Ruby has a very beautiful syntax and so it can be tempting to monkey patch a class to turn some ugly method call into something that is more readable.
Alias method chain led to my first patches to gems which led to my first pull requests which led to my first open source contributions.
When you monkey patch core classes you add to the core ruby apis.
For example you often see monkey patches that simply add a convenience method that has no side effect.
We could monkey patch array and.
