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@anthonysmithemail, regarding your monkey patch example:

class String
  def numeric?
    Float(self) != nil rescue false
  end
end

… is an absolute NO NO.

DO NOT modify Ruby nor API base classes !
SketchUp Ruby is a shared environment.

Instead use refinements:
http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0.0/doc/syntax/refinements_rdoc.html

ie:


module Smith::Refinements
  refine String do
    def numeric?
      Float(self) != nil rescue false
    end
  end
end


using Smith::Refinements

module Smith

  # Write a method / class here that uses 
  # the file-local String class refinement.

end