From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date: 2005-10-28T13:48:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Stuck with modules/classes/inheritance

Selon Kev Jackson :
> given:
> 
> test.rb :
> 
> require 'b'
> 
> b = B.new
> 
> 
> lib/base.rb:
> 
> module A
>  class Base
>  end
> end
> 
> lib/b.rb:
> 
> 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
> 
> ?
> 

In lib/b.rb, you need to write:
require "base"
module A
  class B < Base
  end
end

otherwise your code in b.rb isn't aware of base.rb, and thus doesn't 
know about A::Base.
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