From: Pete <pertl@...>
Date: 2006-06-14T06:35:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Why the lack of mixing-in support for Class methods?

are you looking for that here?

module MixInClassMethods
   def test
      puts "test"
   end
end

try using 'extend'

class MyClass
   extend MixInClassMethods
end

 > MyClass.test
"test"



Andrew Stone schrieb:
> I've read most of this thread and still am a little confused.  I'm no 
> ruby
> guru by any stretch of the imagination, but I use modules to house 
> code that
> can be utilized in various classes.  If I need class methods then I use
> inheritance.  IMO, this is simple and clean.
>
> So far, there doesn't seem to be a clean/simple way to have mixin support
> for class methods.  Until that epiphany is reached, I would think it 
> would
> be better to leave things as is.
>
> I will give a novice suggestion:
>
> Maybe instead of trying to work in this feature to modules, why not
> introduce "ClassModule"?  Or has this been said?  This way it is clear 
> what
> they use is and they can, in turn, have features specific to class method
> inheritance (if any are needed).
>
> Therefore you could mix and match ClassModules with regular Modules.  
> Seems
> pretty flexible to me.  I have no idea how difficult this would be to
> implement.
>