Issue #8091 has been updated by alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov). anuraguniyal (anurag uniyal) wrote: > I don't want to detect class creation I wan to overload new, which should be possible, at-least it would be elegant if `class X` and 'Class.new` behave similarly I think partial overloading can be done by defining the `initialize` private method. ---------------------------------------- Bug #8091: Class.new is not called when class is created using class keyword https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8091#change-37622 Author: anuraguniyal (anurag uniyal) Status: Rejected Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: ruby -v: 2.0.0p0 =begin When a class is created using ((|class|)) keyword, Class.new is not called but if class is created using ((|Class.new|)) it is obviously called, there seems to be a dyssymmetry between ((|class X|)) and ((|Class.new|)) e.g. class Class class << self alias new_orig new def new(*args) obj = new_orig *args print "created",obj,"\n" obj end end end class X end It doesn't print anything, but Class.new does =end -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/