Ruby - Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send

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Re: Method behaves differently when called using #send

David A. Black

2005-08-28, 6:59 pm

Hi --

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Ron M wrote:

> David A. Black wrote:
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> I guess one part of my question was more along the lines of
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> "is it a bug or a feature I don't understand, that
> calling methods through "#send(:name)" vs ".name"
> seem to find different methods"

Certainly this:

ruby -e 'def x; end; x; send(:x)'

should never give you an ArgumentError, for any valid method name in
place of x. If it does, there's a bug somewhere.

If, however, something in your code, or code that yours loads, has
changed things, such that you get that error, then it's not a bug.

> Regarding the specifics of what weird stuff AR is doing,
> would this be a good place to ask, or would the rails
> mailing list be better?

Maybe -- you could try both.

David

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David A. Black
dblack@wobblini.net

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