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By pboling:

My original comment was somewhat sarcastic, and that was lost in transmission.

As someone who uses memoize *extensively* I am dismayed by this change with not so much as a hint as to how to replicate the behavior. It is emphatically *NOT* the same as ||= and this is a key reason why we switched to memoize. My example does replicate the behavior for our purposes, but swapping that out for our uses of memoize will be nasty. I will install your gem, so please update this thread if you actually do create it!

Also Rails, why didn't you pull this out into a separate plugin/gem like you have with everything else? Not cool.