From: Tilman Sauerbeck <tilman@...>
Date: 2006-08-21T01:38:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Initialize and superclass

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jvivenot [2006-08-21 01:35]:
> Lets say I have two classes A and B, where A is B's superclass. B's
> initialize method initialize her own variables, but how could I do in
> order to run A.initialize before B.initialize when I write B.new ?

If I understood your problem correctly, you're after the "super" method.
Try the following code:

class A
  def initialize
    puts "initializing instance of A"
  end
end

class B
  def initialize
    super
    puts "initializing instance of B"
  end
end

Regards,
Tilman

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