Was curious as to how I could go about implementing this. Alias a method after dynamically defining it. You have to use 'send' here since 'alias_method' is private. Cheers!!

alias_dynamically_created_method.rb

Fixnum.class_eval %Q{
  def blank_man
    "blank man"
  end
}

Fixnum.send :alias_method, :blank_man_new, :blank_man

puts "they're equal" if 14.blank_man == 14.blank_man_new # => they're equal

It would be nice if you could call:

Fixnum.alias_method :blank_man_new, :blank_man

directly without relying on send, but this isn't too bad :)

Why would you ever want to do this? I found a reason to do it today. May seem a bit contrived, but you'd be surprised. If your code has equivalent naming conventions, semantics, etc. throughout, then you'll be fine in most cases. But as soon as there's a one off, as was the case today for me, then you'll find yourself in my shoes. Cheers!!