From: Enrique Comba Riepenhausen <ecomba@...>
Date: 2007-05-11T01:14:52+09:00
Subject: Re: The Factory Method

On 10 May 2007, at 18:10, Chris Gernon wrote:

> 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/.
>

Hey Chris!

Thanks a lot! You are welcome to post your findings in the Wiki and  
help to improve the body of knowledge even more there. I think it is  
a great thing to do and I am happy that it might help some of us...

Cheers,

Enrique Comba Riepenhausen