From: Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...>
Date: 2010-02-07T08:24:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Inheritance related problem

Xavier No谷lle wrote:
> Yes, indeed, but what if I need to call a specific parent's method ?
> Say Parent > Child > Grandchild. Is it possible to Parent::m in
> Grandchild (other than super.super.m(), if it works :-)) ?

Besides the solution Gary Wright has shown, there's a simple solution:

 class Parent
   def blah
     puts 'blah blah blah'
   end
   alias original_blah blah
 end

Now, if some class inherits and overrides blah(), you can still call the 
original blah() by doing original_blah().

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