From: Phrogz <phrogz@...>
Date: 2008-02-01T08:04:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Referring to method in enclosing class

On Jan 31, 3:23 pm, Richard Everhart <rich.everh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I wanted to add functionality to the enclosing class via the addition of
> the enclosed class with minimal changes to the enclosing class and its
> methods.  Specifically, the enclosed class is intended to subclass a
> threading framework class and, after instantiated, call methods on the
> enclosing class.  The enclosing class already extends another class.

class Foo
  def yay
    puts "foo sez yay"
  end
  # Creates a Foo::Bar class that is a subclass of Foo
  class Bar < Foo
    def yay
      puts "bar sez yay"
      super
      puts "bar iz done"
    end
  end
end

Foo::Bar.new.yay
#=> bar sez yay
#=> foo sez yay
#=> bar iz done