[MacRuby-devel] Monkey patching Objective-C classes

[Laurent Sansonetti]

I see, I haven't tried with 0.4. Maybe the problem is fixed in trunk :-)

Laurent

On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Jeremy Voorhis wrote:

> I've reproduced it using 0.4, for whatever that's worth. If you open  
> a builtin class (e.g. NSSet) with the class keyword, the object_id  
> changes. If you open it with class_eval, the object_id is unchanged.
>
> Best,
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Laurent Sansonetti <lsansonetti at apple.com 
> > wrote:
> On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Clay Bridges wrote:
>
> I'm using MacRuby to test some of my ObjC classes. I was wondering if
> there was a canonical way to monkey patch these classes.
>
> Just open them as you would do in Ruby.
>
>
> Consider, the following where Cell is an ObjC class:
>
> irb(main):001:0> Cell.object_id
> => 4387749088
> irb(main):002:0> class Cell
> irb(main):003:1>   def whee
> irb(main):004:2>     p 'whee'
> irb(main):005:2>   end
> irb(main):006:1> end
> => nil
> irb(main):007:0> Cell.object_id
> => 4388625216
>
> I would expect the object_id to stay the same, e.g. using pure  
> MacRuby:
>
> irb(main):010:0> class Bar
> irb(main):011:1> end
> => nil
> irb(main):012:0> Bar.object_id
> => 4298834304
> irb(main):013:0> class Bar
> irb(main):014:1>   def drink
> irb(main):015:2>     p 'tasty!'
> irb(main):016:2>   end
> irb(main):017:1> end
> => nil
> irb(main):018:0>  Bar.object_id
> => 4298834304
>
> It's indeed strange. I can't reproduce this on the command-line  
> using NSPredicate.
>
> $ ./miniruby -e "p NSPredicate.object_id; class NSPredicate; def  
> hey;end; end; p NSPredicate.object_id"
> 140735073102888
> 140735073102888
>
> Normally the class shouldn't change if it's just re-opened.
>
> Do you see the #whee method in Objective-C land once you patch it  
> from Ruby?
>
> Laurent
>
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