Alias throwing exception: undefined method `send_mail' for class `HeartBeat' (NameError)

Ruby
1

I’m having a problem with the code below. when I try and alias the
send_mail method, it throws an exception.

undefined method send_mail' for classHeartBeat’ (NameError)

Any help would be appreciated. :slight_smile:

class Heartbeat

alias :win_mail :send_mail if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /mswin32/
alias :unix_mail :send_mail if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /linux/

#Abstract method
def send_mail
raise RuntimeError, “Could not detect OS”
end

private

in: hash=> subject, body, recipients

out: true if successful

def win_mail(opts={})
require ‘win32ole’
outlook = WIN32OLE.new(‘Outlook.Application’)
message = outlook.CreateItem(0)
message.Subject = opts[:subject]
message.Body = opts[:body]
message.To = opts[:recipients]
message.Send
end

def unix_mail(opts={})
end

end

2

On Jun 15, 2008, at 0:00, Tristin D. wrote:

alias :win_mail :send_mail if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /mswin32/
alias :unix_mail :send_mail if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /linux/

#Abstract method
def send_mail
raise RuntimeError, “Could not detect OS”
end

The method isn’t defined in the class until now. Move the alias lines
to below the def, and it’ll work.

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a,b=%Q=Z,O^NPO\r4_PV\PI\x15^-\x0\v=,email=%%%%c%115%%# Mikael
Hoilund, CTO
okay=%#;hmm=(0…a.size).map{|i|((a[i]-email[i]+2)%128).# of Meta.io
ApS from
chr}.join;!email.gsub!‘o’,“%c%c”%[3+?0.<<(2),?G.~@];aha=#############
Denmark
hmm.scan(/#{‘(.)’*5}/);!puts(email[1…-12]+aha.shift.zip(*aha).join)#
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