From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-07-24T23:45:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Inherited & load

On Jul 24, 2007, at 9:40 AM, F. Senault wrote:

> Le 24 juillet � 15:18, James Edward Gray II a �crit :
>
>> On Jul 24, 2007, at 5:10 AM, F. Senault wrote:
>>
>>> I can find the constant in Object.constants, but there is
>>> no delete_const in there.  :|
>>
>> $ ri -T remove_const
>> Hope that helps.
>
> Alas, Object is not a module :

Did you ask it?  ;)

 >> Object.is_a? Module
=> true
 >> Object.class
=> Class
 >> Object.class.ancestors
=> [Class, Module, Object, Wirble::Shortcuts, PP::ObjectMixin, Kernel]

> 16:35 fred@balvenie:~/ruby/espions> irb
>>> o = Object.constants
> => ["SocketError", ...]
>>> class Test ; end
> => nil
>>> Object.constants - o
> => ["Test"]
>>> Object.remove_const(:Test)
> NoMethodError: private method `remove_const' called for Object:Class
>         from (irb):4

 >> Object.constants.grep("Test")
=> []
 >> class Test; end
=> nil
 >> Object.constants.grep("Test")
=> ["Test"]
 >> Object.send(:remove_const, "Test")
=> Test
 >> Object.constants.grep("Test")
=> []

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II