From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-02-09T09:05:27+09:00
Subject: Re: how to create singleton methods in script


On Feb 8, 2006, at 6:58 PM, charlie bowman wrote:

> Here is a simplified version of a little timekeeper app that I've been
> using to learn ruby with.  The TimeKeeper class is a class I created
> also.  I want to add a method to the script that displays some text  
> if a
> bad action occurs but I can't get it to work.  I don't know how to  
> tell
> the script to use the method ( or function as I would call it in  
> perl).
> This is my error.
>
> undefined method `display_bad_action' for #<TimeKeeper:0xb7fc8730>
> (NoMethodError
>
> usr/bin/ruby
>
> require 'TimeKeeper'
>
>   ## create the TimeKeeper object
>   time_keeper = TimeKeeper.new(ARGV) # Ok
>   puts time_keeper.display_bad_action(time_keeper.action) # Oops,  
> this method doesn't exist, YET
>
> ## method to display messages regarding bad action (ie can't logout  
> when
> on break)
>   def time_keeper.display_bad_action(action) # NOW, I know how to  
> call this method.
>
     [code omitted]
> end
>
try time_keeper = TimeKeeper.new(ARGV)
     then def time_keeper.display_bad_action then foollow that with  
any code that might follow it.

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