From: Stefan Lang <langstefan@...>
Date: 2005-11-05T02:25:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Class and Mixin with same method name problem

On Friday 04 November 2005 18:07, petermichaux@yahoo.com wrote:
> What if two moduals are included and each uses the same method
> name? In the example below the Debug whoAmI? method is called. How
> do I call the Burp whoAmI? method?

There is no clean and simple way to do so.

> module Debug
>   def whoAmI?
>     "#{self.class.name}"
>   end
> end
>
> module Burp
>   def whoAmI?
>     "Burp #{self.class.name}"
>   end
> end
>
> class EightTrack
>   include Burp
>   include Debug
The following method definition is useless.
Remove it and you'll get the same result.
>   def whoAmI?
>     super
>   end
> end
>
> et = EightTrack.new
>
> p et.whoAmI?

-- 
Stefan