Faking the new operator in Ruby. IT"S A JOKE LAUGH.

new.rb

module Kernel
  
  def new(object)
    if object.is_a?(Class)
      object.new
    else
      object
    end
  end
  
  def method_missing(method_name, *args, &block)
    if method_name.to_s =~ /^[A-Z]/
      mod =
        if self.is_a?(Module)
          self
        else
          self.class
        end
      
      klass = mod.const_get(method_name.to_s) rescue nil
      if klass.is_a?(Class)
        return klass.send(:new, *args, &block)
      end
    end
    
    super
  end
  
end

module NerdyC
  class Person
    attr_accessor :name, :email
  
    def initialize(name, email = nil)
      self.name = name
      self.email = email
    end
  
    def inspect
      "#{name} <#{email}>"
    end
  end
end

new NerdyC::Person('Christian Niles', 'christian@email.com')
# => Christian Niles <christian@email.com>

include NerdyC
new Person('Christian Niles', 'christian@email.com')
# => Christian Niles <christian@email.com>

This code is a joke in response to my friend Alejandro's tweet, in which he asked for a 'new' operator in ruby 1.9. I casually threw together this abuse of method_missing to show him how it's done :)