From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-02-07T23:41:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Making object methods available externally

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:31 PM, David Stanford <dthomas53@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all the responses, guys.
>
> Judging from everyone's response, it sounds like what I'm trying to do
> isn't typically done. My mindset was, first, to simply create a standard
> class. While creating one of the object methods for that class, I
> realized that the same method code would be useful to call directly,
> without having to create an object instance; so, as I said, I was
> thinking there must be some way to do this, without repeating the same
> (or a similar piece) of code somewhere else.

Probably s bit extreme for one method, but say you had 10 you wanted
to do this with:

module Foo
  def self.included(base)
     base.extend(self)
  end

  def method1; end
  def method2; end
  #...
end

class A
  include Foo # no need for manual extend call
end

Not tested or necessarily recommended. :)

-greg

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