From: Ed Hames <ehames@...>
Date: 2008-01-19T03:44:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Parent class cannot call child class method

On Jan 18, 4:21 pm, Stefano Crocco <stefano.cro...@alice.it> wrote:
> Alle Friday 18 January 2008, Ed Hames ha scritto:
>
>
>
> > Hi guys,
>
> > I have the following design which is not working as I would like it
> > to:
>
> > class A
> >   def bar
> >     raise "Base class can't do bar!"
> >   end
>
> >   def foo
> >     bar
> >   end
> > end
>
> > class B < A
> >   def bar
> >     puts "B doing bar"
> >   end
>
> >   def foo
> >     puts "B does this first"
> >     super
> >   end
> > end
>
> > If I do B.new.foo I get an exception because Base class can't do bar
> > which is understandable. However, I want B#bar to be called. What
> > would be the proper way to solve this problem?
>
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Edgardo
>
> It works for me. Are you sure this is the exact code you're running?
>

I actually forgot to write the B#bar method in my program :(

Sorry about that,
Edgardo