Responding to Calls to Undefined Methods : method_missing « Reflection « Ruby






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  2. Reflection
  3. method_missing

Responding to Calls to Undefined Methods


class MyClass
  def defined_method
    'This method is defined.'
  end

  def method_missing(m, *args)
    "Sorry, I don't know about any #{m} method."
  end
end

o = MyClass.new
o.defined_method                         # => "This method is defined."
o.undefined_method
# => "Sorry, I don't know about any undefined_method method."








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