Notes posted by nZifnab

Perfectly applicable

@rkh You would be correct if this code had occurred in a subclass who’s parent method was being overridden.

However, defining the method in this manner is completely removing the old method - as if you had written code like this:

class MyClass
  def do_something
    puts "We're doing some stuff here"
  end

  def do_something
    puts "The old do_something method no longer exists!"
  end
end

MyClass.new.do_something
# => "The old do_something method no longer exists!"

Of course this is non-sensical. But the idea is that you have either included a module, or monkey-patched an already existent class, and completely replaced the old method. super(*args) will not work