From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-03-27T02:24:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Instead of templates


"Adelle Hartley" <adelle@bullet.net.au> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:courier.42453960.00006AA7@mars.sisgroup.com.au...
> ARggh.
>
>> > > module Extension
>> > >   # this one is really only neede if you
>> > >   # want to inherit this behavior automatically
>> > >   # down the class hierarchy
>> > >   def inherited(cl)
>> > >     cl.extend Extension
>> > >   end
>
> This is pretty neat if I want to add class methods to child classes.  Is
> their an equivalent mechanism for adding instance methods?

Not needed as they are inherited if you use "normal" module inclusion:

>> module Foo; def bar() "bar" end end
=> nil
>> class A
>> include Foo
>> end
=> A
>> class B < A
>> end
=> nil
>> B.new.bar
=> "bar"

Cheers

    robert