Issue #8153 has been reported by mjtko (Mark Titorenko). ---------------------------------------- Bug #8153: Problems with Enumerable#zip caused by overriding Object#respond_to? https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8153 Author: mjtko (Mark Titorenko) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24 revision 39474) [x86_64-darwin12.2.0] If I override Object#respond_to? under Ruby 2.0.0, Enumerable#zip begins to misbehave. Here is the code and output in Ruby 2.0.0: 2.0.0p0 :001 > RUBY_VERSION => "2.0.0" 2.0.0p0 :002 > class Object 2.0.0p0 :003?> alias :_respond_to? :respond_to? 2.0.0p0 :004?> def respond_to?(*a) 2.0.0p0 :005?> _respond_to?(*a) 2.0.0p0 :006?> end 2.0.0p0 :007?> end => nil 2.0.0p0 :008 > [1,2,3].zip((1..3).each) => [[1, nil], [2, nil], [3, nil]] Should be: [[1, 1], [2, 2], [3, 3]] Here is the output I was expecting, generated in Ruby 1.9.3 -- ruby 1.9.3p392 (2013-02-22 revision 39386) [x86_64-darwin12.2.0]: 1.9.3p392 :001 > RUBY_VERSION => "1.9.3" 1.9.3p392 :002 > class Object 1.9.3p392 :003?> alias :_respond_to? :respond_to? 1.9.3p392 :004?> def respond_to?(*a) 1.9.3p392 :005?> _respond_to?(*a) 1.9.3p392 :006?> end 1.9.3p392 :007?> end => nil 1.9.3p392 :008 > [1,2,3].zip((1..3).each) => [[1, 1], [2, 2], [3, 3]] 1.9.3p392 :009 > I'm not certain if this is the only method which is interfered with, but it's how I determined an issue was present initially. For copy and paste convenience: class Object alias :_respond_to? :respond_to? def respond_to?(*a) _respond_to?(*a) end end [1,2,3].zip((1..3).each) FWIW, the same behaviour occurs if using a prepend-ed module and super: module RespondToBug def respond_to?(*a) super end end class Object prepend RespondToBug end -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/