From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-09-11T22:36:36+09:00
Subject: Re: define and call methods in ruby

Hi --

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Jay Pangmi wrote:

> David A. Black wrote:
>> This will get you started:
>>
>>    class Myclass
>>      def method_to_call
>>        puts "Hello!"
>>      end
>>    end
>>
>>    object = Myclass.new
>>    object.method_to_call
>>
>> It's the object (the instance of Myclass) that can execute the method.
>>
>>
>> David
>
> Thanks David for the help, but just kinda suprised, wouldn't it be for
> method that's being called from another class (no offense, just my view
> from my lil knowledge of java). If what you are saying is what should be
> for method calls in the same class then can you please lighten me up a
> bit coz I'm new to ruby as well. I mean method calls as:
> ================================================================================
> class myclass
> if something then
>   do_something
> end
>
> #implementation of do_something method.
> def do_something
>  here something is done..
> end
> end
> ================================================================================

You're defining do_something as an instance method of Myclass; that
means that you need an instance of Myclass in order to call
do_something. To get that instance, you need to do Myclass.new.


David

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