From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-11-11T05:21:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with object methods?

Hi --

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Carter Davis wrote:

> The text of the program was as follows:
>
> puts "before class : #{self.inspect}"
>
> class FirstClass
>    def initialize
>        puts "YAY INITIALIZE!"
>        puts "in initialize : #{self.inspect}"
>    end
>    puts "inside class : #{self.inspect}"
>    # text
>
>    def text
>        puts "Yay more text!"
>        puts "inside test method : #{self.inspect}"
>    end
> end
>
> firstClass = FirstClass.new
> firstClass.test

The test method you're calling at the end is a pre-defined, private
method defined in Kernel. I'm not sure what you're wanting or
expecting it to do. Do you mean "text"? That will fail with an unknown
method error, since you haven't defined a method text on your actual
class object FirstClass (only on its instances).


David

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