From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-10-03T03:26:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem extending (adding methods) to class

Hi --

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Nit Khair wrote:

>> No. If you want to add methods to it, you can just open it up and add
>> them:
>>
>>    require 'rubygems'
>>    require 'ncurses'
>>
>>    class Ncurses::Form::FORM
>>      def my_method
>>        puts "Hello"
>>      end
>>    end
>>
>>    n = Ncurses::Form::FORM.new
>>    n.my_method                    # Hello
>>
>>
>> David
>
> That is precisely what i did. It worked.  But I am unable to further
> subclass it. Methods I am adding to the subclass are giving
> NoMethodErrors.

Can you try this and tell me what you get?

   class MyForm < Ncurses::Form::FORM
     def a_new_method
       puts "Hi"
     end
   end

   MyForm.new.a_new_method


David

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