In article <cff277eb-6676-4e7b-9523-9f1d733aa55b / c4g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, Trans <transfire / gmail.com> writes: > For the other, I take it you did not follow the conversion about this > on ruby-talk. The problem is that if someone defines an Object#meta or > Kernel#meta extension method it will cause open-uri to bomb. Besides > that, open_uri is simply using the #respond_to? to test to see if its > Meta module has been included, so changing it to is_a? is actually > more precise to the authors intention. I intend that open-uri use duck typing. -- Tanaka Akira