[Chirb] Question...

[Nate Kirby]

All,

I feel kind of like a ruby nubie saying this, but all of my work in ruby 
has been in rails.  I just got some work that does not require rails.  
When I work in rails, whenever metaprogramming is used to change the 
behavior of say String#length, it has gone in application.rb, so all 
those kinds of behavoir changes have been easy to locate.  However, now, 
when working without rails, these kinds of things go... well I assume 
there must be a ruby convention for this.  I have found 
http://rubygarden.org/ruby/page/show/RubyStyleGuide and 
http://blog.jayfields.com/2007/01/class-reopening-hints.html but am 
unsure that the real ruby convention for changing a previously defined 
classes' behavior is clear.

Does anyone out there know the right answer?  Where do class 
redefinitions go according to ruby conventions?

TIA,
Nate