Right, method swizzling is actually "monkey patching" in ruby parlance. You arent replacing the _dispatch mechanism_, you are relying on the fact that its a dyn

Right, method swizzling is actually "monkey patching" in ruby parlance. You arent replacing the _dispatch mechanism_, you are relying on the fact that its a dynamic lookup to replace that entry in the lookup table at runtime. Which then the dispatch mechanism happily plays along with.