# Simple example for plugin to change files?

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**Created:** [June 30, 2023, 9:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/simple-example-for-plugin-to-change-files/270206 "2023-06-30T21:40:07Z")\
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This is a technique known as “monkey patching”. There are several ways to accomplish this but the easiest is to just define the method you want to replace in your plugin.

```rb
after_initialize do
  class ::TopicEmbed
    def self.imported_from_html(url)
       # your code
    end
  end
end

```

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