From: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@...>
Date: 2005-08-26T21:07:33+09:00
Subject: Circular dependecy on classes

I have several classes that have circular dependencies on each other.
See following example.

class Solder
  @can_upgrade_to = [Knight]
  #or use constant from Knight class

  def upgrade!(to)
    raise "Unable to upgrade" unless @can_upgrade_to.contain(to)
  end
end

class Knight < Solder
end

I cant use Knight constant (class name) before Solder and can't use
Solder before Knight.

I am just come from Java lang and for Java circular class deps is not
a problem.
But ruby is a dynamic language and it creates classes just on script
executing. (right?)

So my questions is: how to solve this problem? What is the best way to
deal with it.

-- 
anatol