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Re:What I didn't know about Ruby Classes by Lammy on Saturday November 21, 2020 @09:17PM (#25174330)
> Include and Extend your Classes

And — since Ruby 2.0 — Module#prepend, which places the prepended Module ahead of the caller in the ancestor chain https://ruby-doc.org/core/Module.html#method-i-prepend

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Re:What I didn't know about Ruby Classes by amarshall on Sunday November 22, 2020 @09:34AM (#25177726)
Which is a much nicer alternative to `alias_method_chain` and similar for monkey-patching or enhancing an existing method in a class as it makes more clear the existence and origin of the patch.
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