From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-10-28T13:45:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Stuck with modules/classes/inheritance

On Oct 27, 2005, at 9:35 PM, Kev Jackson wrote:

> given:
>
> test.rb :
>
> require 'b'
>
> b = B.new

b = A::B.new

> lib/base.rb:
>
> module A
>  class Base
>  end
> end
>
> lib/b.rb:

require 'base'

> module A
>  class B < Base
>  end
> end
>
> Why do I get
>
> ./lib/b.rb:2: uninitialized constant A::Base (NameError)
>        from test.rb:1:in `require'
>        from test.rb:1
>
> ?
>
> This is a stripped down version of what I want to do (ie organize  
> my code into a module, but still keep classes in separate files,  
> have a base class and inherit).
>
> It's probably something trivial, but at the moment I'm stuck - any  
> help would be (as always) greatly appreciated

Also you can get away with less indentation:

$ cat base.rb
module A; end

class A::Base
end
$ cat b.rb
require 'base'

class A::B < A::Base
end


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