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Rails: How to use prepend to avoid monkey patches in modules

Let's say you have a gem which has the following module:

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module SuperClient

  def self.foo
    'Foo'
  end
  
  def bar
    'Bar'
  end

end

For reasons you need to override foo and bar.

Keep in mind: Your code quality is getting worse with with each prepend (other developers are not happy to find many library extensions). Try to avoid it if possible.

Add a lib/ext/super_client.rb to your project (Folder or file needs to be required in an initializer)
Add the extension, which overrides both methods (prepend is available since ruby >=2)

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module SuperClientExtension

  def self.prepended(base)
    base.singleton_class.send(:prepend, ClassMethods)
  end

  module ClassMethods
    def foo
      'New foo'
    end
  end
  
  def bar
    'New bar'
  end
  
end

module SuperClient
  prepend SuperClientExtension
end

Test

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class Test; include SuperClient; end

SuperClient.foo => 'New foo'
Test.new.bar => 'New bar'

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