From: MohsinHijazee <mohsinhijazee@...>
Date: 2008-02-21T20:24:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Reusing the existing code.

On Feb 21, 4:10 pm, prizr...@yahoo.com wrote:
> On 21 æÅ×, 13:02, MohsinHijazee <mohsinhija...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> > š šI have a new class which needs to reuse the code in two classes.
> > But I can only derive it from one class. How should I go about it then?
>
> Use mixins, by defining modules
>
> Module A
>   def afunc; 5; end
> end
>
> Module B
>   def bfunc; 6; end
> end
>
> class AB
>   include A
>   include B
> end
>
> x AB.new
> x.afunc # -> 5
> x.bfunc # -> 6

The problem is that the second class which I want to use is derived
from the ActionController::Base. I cannot make that class into a
module otherwise I would be disturbing a the functionality of the
Rails Application.