[Rails] trying to work out what is going on with monkey patch of String

Somewhere in all of the ruby code that gets included into this app I
am working on, there is something that defined String so that the
following is a valid statement

puts "contact us at " + "info@abc.com"[] + " and say hello"

The app that runs, is able to include that stuff and Ruby doesn't
complain. When I try to write a test module and
include some of the code, ruby complains beuse my load paths or some
part of the configuration is different. I am not really sure.

If I monkey patch string like below, it seems to stop the errors, but
I am not sure if it could be causing other problems.

class String
def [](x=nil,b=nil)
self
end
end

I am on windows, but I am using cygwin. I did something like what's
below, but did not find where [] might be defined:

find . -name "*.rb" -exec grep -A 15 "class String" {} \; -print > /
cygdrive/c/tmp/str-patch.txt

Any other ideas to figure this out ? How can I tell inside irb or
something what the code is for "info@abc.com"[]
or where it is defined ?

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