From: widmannm <widmannm@...>
Date: 2007-09-27T10:05:06+09:00
Subject: Re: calling instance method defined in a parent class ??

On Sep 26, 5:16 pm, "Christopher J. Bottaro" <cjbott...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> How do I do that?  Consider the following class definitions:

class Foo
  def a
    puts 'foo'
  end
end

class Bar < Foo
  alias b a

  def a
    puts 'bar'
  end
end

Foo.new.a # => foo
Bar.new.a # => bar
Bar.new.b # => foo

> class Foo
>   def a
>     puts "Foo"
>   end
> end
>
> class Bar < Foo
>   def a
>     puts "Bar"
>   end
>   def b
>     parent.a # I want to call Foo#a here for this instance of Bar.
>   end
> end
>
> Bar.new.b # => "Foo"
>
> Thanks for the help.

No problem.