From: Ilan Berci <coder68@...>
Date: 2008-02-01T07:34:04+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

Not to fear, I have used similar stuff in other languages .. I believe 
what you are looking for is delegates:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/delegate/rdoc/index.html

hth

ilan
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