From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2005-11-24T04:03:11+09:00
Subject: Re: pattern: auto-running module init code

In article <43846a75$0$1813$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk>,
Daniel Schierbeck  <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com> wrote:

>Ideally, there would be a method hook that was called when a class 
>including the module was instantiated.
>
>   module Fooable
>     def self.initialized(obj, *args, &block)
>       puts "A class including Fooable has been instantiated!"
>       obj.do_something(*args) # whatever
>     end
>   end

But as Sean pointed out we essentially get the same behavior by calling 
'super' somewhere in the including class's constructor.

Phil