From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-05-16T01:19:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Weird class-loading issue (or maybe a problem with define_method?)

On Tue, 16 May 2006, Pat Maddox wrote:

> I'm not sure how that fixes anything.  Foo has to create some Bar
> objects, and Bar has to have access to some of the Foo constants.  I
> didn't talk about that in my initial post, but each class interacts
> with each other.
>
> Pat

a setup like this will give you that

   harp:~ > cat foo_constants.rb
   module FooConstants
     FOO = 42
   end

   harp:~ > cat foo.rb
   require 'foo_constants'
   class Foo
     include FooConstants
   end

   harp:~ > cat bar.rb
   require 'foo_constants'
   class Bar
     include FooConstants
     def self.set_foo(val)
       define_method(:foo) { val }
     end
   end

   harp:~ > ruby foobar.rb
   42


hard to understand __why__ you'd do that - but factoring module-wise will
certainly lead to an elegant answer.

regards.

-a
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