so you can safely chain foo, foo?, and foo! with the same feature.
# File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module/aliasing.rb, line 25
def alias_method_chain(target, feature)
# Strip out punctuation on predicates or bang methods since
# e.g. target?_without_feature is not a valid method name.
aliased_target, punctuation = target.to_s.sub(/([?!=])$/, ''), $1
yield(aliased_target, punctuation) if block_given?
with_method, without_method = "#{aliased_target}_with_#{feature}#{punctuation}", "#{aliased_target}_without_#{feature}#{punctuation}"
alias_method without_method, target
alias_method target, with_method
case
when public_method_defined?(without_method)
public target
when protected_method_defined?(without_method)
protected target
when private_method_defined?(without_method)
private target
end
end
2Notes
Method moved in 2.1 and again in 3.0 (beta)
mikael · Jul 14, 20101 thank
It was moved from and back to Module#alias_method_chain