From: Griff <grettke@...>
Date: 2007-03-22T00:05:07+09:00
Subject: Execution scope of Ruby artifacts running outside of an object (plain old script)?

Hi folks,

What is the scope of execution of a plain old Ruby script?

For example, if you write a script that does not define any classes
and you use reflection to get the current class, you discover that it
is "Object".

Eg on Windows:

echo puts "#{self.class}" > temp.rb
ruby temp.rb
Object

I am interested in where this behavior is defined. I didn't see any
mention of this in the Pickaxe2 book, but I could have overlooked it.