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Maybe you could call it “duck classing,” who knows. I think it fits. Subclassing any possible parent class that acts like a certain class. So, in MouseHole, I can swap out proxy backends I’m testing.

 def MouseHole.ProxyServer( proxy_base )
   Class.new( proxy_base ) do

     attr_accessor :user_scripts, :temp_scripts

     def initialize #.. and other overlaying methods
     end

   end
 end

Pass in the base class and you get an anonymous class freshly built between the two.

 server = MouseHole.ProxyServer( WEBrick::HTTPProxyServer ).new

Ah, railroading inheritance. It’s like foster parents. Which is better than multiple inheritance (aka custody battles.) RIght?