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Monkey Patch a class without polluting the namespace and methods in a class
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monkey-patch.rb
class ClassToMonkeyPatch
old_method = instance_method(:patched_method)
define_method(:patched_method) do |arg1, arg2, &block|
do_some_stuff
# delegate the rest to the old version of the method
res = old_method.bind(self).(arg1, arg2, &block)
end
end
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