"display" reserved word for key?

[jrochkind]

Is there a reason "display" would be a reserved word for a key? Traced my weird bug down to that.

 hash = {:display=> "display", :foo => 'foo'}
 conf = Confstruct::Configuration.new( hash )

conf.foo           # => 'foo'
conf.display    # => #<Confstruct::Configuration:0x0000000fff4b78>nil
conf[:display]  # => 'display'

Looks like 'display' is for some reason 'special'/reserved, but I am not sure why or if this is a bug. Took me a while to reproduce and figure out it really was the key 'display' that did it!

[jrochkind]

Ah, weird #display is a method on ruby Object, although not one I had ever heard of or seen before. http://apidock.com/ruby/v1_9_2_180/Object/display

Okay then.

I wonder if confstruct actually ought to remove some methods from Object, or use 1.9 "BasicObject" or something. I dunno, I guess this is just downside of automatic struct-ization like that.

[mbklein]

Huh, I had never heard of #display, either. Interesting. I'm already removing some methods from Object, but I can take a look at this one sometime next week.

[hoenic07]

We are now having facing the same issue with the name entries. Do you plan to support names of functions that already exist as well?

[mbklein]

I've been using railsconfig for a while now, so I can't say there's going to be much ongoing support for confstruct. I'm happy to consider PRs and work others want to contribute, but I probably won't be making direct improvements myself.