Crap, could an admin please fix the use of RD in my post. And while I am on the subject, can we just make RD mode always on and be done with it?

I see. It's not intuitive, obviously, but I suppose it makes sense for how Ruby handles implicit yield in general. Nonetheless, wouldn't it be better if this did not apply when a explicit block argument is used?

would pass block implicitly¶

def foo
super
end

would NOT pass block implicitly¶

def foo(&block)
super
end

In any case I discovered the use of &nil as a work around prior to posting this and that does the trick. Thanks.

Just a note: super without arguments is documented to pass all arguments, so to not pass a block can only be expected from super()

@alexey I thought that was no longer true for 1.9.

@Thomas, i didn't know it could change. In fact, i do not know where to find an up to date documentation about basic Ruby keywords.