Variation in behavior between directly calling a method and using method('name').call ?

rubyonrails-core
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Given this example code:

http://gist.github.com/221585

(highly simplified from the real code, which involves ActiveSupport::Rescuable and some other magic)

Why does the second call (which is essentially what Rescuable does in 2.3) fail? Adding a 'def foo; super; end' to class B makes it work, but I can't figure out why that's needed for only one of the two forms.

Any help is appreciated.

--Matt Jones