From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2004-12-30T22:28:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Inheritance of class variables

> Sorry if I'm missing some point here, because I'm a Ruby newbie, but  
> is that correct? I mean, seems that we need to write more code with  
> this kind of behaviour.

I was quite puzzled by this behavior too. So in Rails I use a module  
called class_inheritable_attributes.rb. It's a bit inconvenient, but I  
usually wrap all calls to this lib in pretty accessors anyway, so it's  
not that big of a deal. And very helpful :)

http://dev.rubyonrails.com/file/trunk/activesupport/lib/ 
class_inheritable_attributes.rb
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