From: Chris Gernon Date: 2007-05-11T01:10:26+09:00 Subject: Re: The Factory Method Thank you so much for this discussion, and for starting the wiki. I picked up "Head First Design Patterns" a while back to try to learn design patterns. The book is completely Java-oriented, but I thought I could use my knowledge of Ruby to "translate" the lessons in the book (I don't have any Java experience). By an unfortunate coincidence, though, the first pattern they covered was the Factory pattern, and based on my Ruby experience, not only couldn't I figure out how to do it in Ruby, I couldn't even understand what problem they were trying to solve! I put it down for a while and moved on to other computer books. Now that this wiki is up and running, though, I do believe I'll go back and tackle it again! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.