[qyv]

IMO monkey-patching built-in classes is idiomatic Ruby!

Edit to add: Actually, now that I think about it, using method_missing would have been even better!

[smitherfield]

Well of course. I originally linked to this code: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18873581#18878500

But the edit window had passed by the time I changed it.