From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-06-18T23:14:21+09:00
Subject: Re: The Ruby Script Context

2009/6/18 Andrew Timberlake <andrew@andrewtimberlake.com>:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Mike Stephens <rubfor@recitel.net> wrote:
>>
>> When you enter a script, am I right in thinking that automatically an
>> overall Module object and a Class object are created, so that all your
>> methods not within another class or module are part of these objects?
>> What are the names of these two default objects?
>
> You can see for yourself by using ruby
>
> puts self.inspect
> puts self.class.inspect
> puts self.class.included_modules.inspect

Note that there are differences between versions of Ruby:

16:13:18 JavaProducts_NGCP_dev_R1.0_PoA$ allruby -e 'p self,
self.class, class<<self;ancestors;end'
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 padrklemme1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin
========================================
ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i386-cygwin]
main
Object
[Object, Kernel]
========================================
ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-cygwin]
main
Object
[Object, Kernel, BasicObject]
16:13:24 JavaProducts_NGCP_dev_R1.0_PoA$

Kind regards

robert

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