From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-04-10T06:19:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Question of self

Hi --

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Daniel Waite wrote:

> Oops. Forgot to add that I logged the output of...
>
> ">>> Self is: #{ self } -> #{ self.class }"
>
> ... and got...
>
>>>> Self is: #<Class:ActiveRecord::Base> -> Class
>
> I recognize the #<Class:...> bit as a singleton, or metaclass, but is
> that also the instance? I was under the impression there was only one
> metaclass per object.

There is. I'm not sure what you mean by the instance. You haven't
instantiated ActiveRecord::Base in your example, so there aren't any
instances of it around, and in any case they'd be unrelated to the
singleton class of their class.

I'm not sure what's leading you to interpret it that way, so I'm not
sure I'm explaining it adequately.


David

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