[ruby-core:112342] [Ruby master Feature#15374] Proposal: Enable refinements to `#method_missing`

10 Feb 2023

      Issue #15374 has been updated by shreeve (Steve Shreeve).
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I don't see any real-world usage of allowing #method_missing refinable. Maybe it can be used only for tricks and obfusticated code.
We use this heavily and it would be great if `method_missing` could be refinable.

Here's an example:

```ruby
class Hash
  alias_method :default_lookup, :[]

  def [](key, miss=nil)
    key?(key) and return default_lookup(key) || miss

    ary = key.to_s.split(/(?:[.\/\[]|\][.\/]?)/)
    val = ary.inject(self) do |obj, sub|
      if    obj == self        then default_lookup(sub.to_sym)
      elsif obj == nil         then break
      elsif sub =~ /\A-?\d*\z/ then obj[sub.to_i]
      else                          obj[sub.to_sym]
      end
    end or miss
  end

  def method_missing(name, *args)
    name =~ /=$/ ? send(:[]=, $`.to_sym, *args) : send(:[], name, *args)
  end
end

book = {
  name: "Ruby Object Model",
  url: [
    "https://google.com",
    "https://pepsi.com",
    "https://byu.edu",
  ],
  team: {
    boss: {
      name: "Mark",
      age: 23,
    },
    janitor: {
      name: "Bob",
      age: 56,
      kids: %w[ Billy Sue Tim Nebo Dash ],
    },
  },
}

p book.name  # => "Ruby Object Model"
p book.color # => nil
p book.color("red") # => "red"
p book.url[2] # => "https://byu.edu"
p book["team/janitor/age"] # => 56
p book["team.janitor.age"] # => 56
p book["team/janitor/song", "None"] # => "None"
p book["team/janitor/kids[3]"] # => "Nebo"
```

This approach has been *extremely* helpful and useful, but I can't get it to work with refinements and I always feel a little dirty with bastardizing the core `Hash` class.

Can this code be made to work with refinements? This is a real world case, where we rely on this heavily for an api in production for several years. Refinement support would be great!

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Feature #15374: Proposal: Enable refinements to `#method_missing`
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15374#change-101786

* Author: osyo (manga osyo)
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
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Proposal enable refinements to `#method_missing`.
It can be used in the following cases.

```ruby
# Access key value with method
using Module.new {
	refine Hash do
		# name is Symbol or String
		def method_missing(name)
			self[name.to_sym] || self[name.to_s]
		end
	end
}

hash = { name: "homu", "age" => 14 }
pp hash.name
# => "homu"
pp hash.age
# => "age"
```

`method_missing` is hard hacking.
I would like to use Refinements with `method_missing`.

pull request: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/2036

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