monkeypatching - Ruby using prepend to patch a class doesn't work -

i'm trying patch verb methods in sinatra add function call before it. having problems in using alias chain keep original methods, discovered prepend allow me want without using such hacky method.

however prepended functions not being called , being ignored. what's going on?

here's patch:

if defined? sinatra::base        module restman         module patches             module sinatra_base_patch                            [:get, :post, :put, :delete, :head, :options, :patch, :link, :unlink].each |func_name|                     define_method func_name |*args,&block|                         if args.first.class == symbol                             super(restman::routes.get(args.first)[:uri],*block)                         else                             super(*args,*block)                         end                      end                 end             end         end     end     ::sinatra::base.prepend restman::patches::sinatra_base_patch end 

edit:(explanation)

the patch pretty simple, overrides sinatra's normal http verb methods , checks if symbol passed or not, if 1 passes symbol method returns mapping , takes url out of mapping , passes sinatra's normal http verb methods.

this can have:

restman::routes.define   map :root, to: '/' end 

and do

get :root  'hello world!' end 

i thinking of trying refinements, might work better.. maybe?

the get, post, put etc. methods in sinatra class methods, creating instance methods names. in order intercept methods need prepend sinatra::base singleton class.

try this:

::sinatra::base.singleton_class.prepend restman::patches::sinatra_base_patch