From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2008-01-31T16:56:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Referring to method in enclosing class

Richard Everhart wrote:
> I need to do something like what is being attempted in the code below.
> 
> The commented out code is what I can't figure out: how do methods in a
> nested classes call methods in their enclosing class?  Is this even
> possible?
> 
> class Enclosing
>   def go
>     Hello.new.do_say_hello
>   end
> 
>   def say_hello
>     "Hello World!"
>   end
> 
>   class Hello
>     def do_say_hello
> #     puts Enclosing class's say_hello method
>     end
>   end
> 
> end


Why do you want to nest Hello inside Enclosing?

class Enclosing
  def say_hello
    puts "hi"
  end
end

class Hello
  def initialize
    @e = Enclosing.new
  end

  def do_say_hello
    @e.say_hello
  end
end

h = Hello.new
h.do_say_hello

--output:--
hi
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