From: John Mair <jrmair@...>
Date: 2011-02-23T09:05:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Q: How to call parent method explistly?

It's ugly but this works (i assume Child subclasses Parent?)

    class Child < Parent
      def _hello(name)
        Parent.instance_method(:hello).bind(self).call(name)
      end
    end


makoto kuwata wrote in post #983231:
> Is it possible to call parent method specifying method name explicitly
> like super.foobar() or parent::foobar()?
>
>     class Parent
>        def hello(name)
>          puts "Hello #{name}!"
>        end
>     end
>
>     class Child
>       def hello(name)
>         # ...
>         _hello(name)
>         # ...
>       end
>       private
>       def _hello(name)
>         # ...
>         super(name)   # want to call Parent#hello(), not _hello()
>         # ...
>       end
>     end

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