From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-04-07T18:12:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Calling class method from instance method

Hi --

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Yu-shan Fung wrote:

> Pretty dumb question -- how do I call a class method from inside an
> instance method (of the same class)?
>
> The use case I have is that in an activerecord model class, I would like
> to define an instance method which calls find_by_sql.
>
> I have tried and found that this works:
>  self.class.find_by_sql
>
>
> But this seems pretty verbose for something so obvious.

You need the 'self.' part because class is a keyword. It's a bit
verbose but something's got to give :-)


David

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