From: David Jacobs Date: 2011-05-13T11:18:35+09:00 Subject: Re: Scope problem (?) in implementing Design Patterns in Ruby Hard to do when you are reading a book on Design Patterns, and you are > trying to understand one of the examples. I'm also currently reading > the same book as RichardOnRails, but I'm not quite that far along. I've read the book. It's good but I think it's healthy to understand how design patterns aren't always necessary in Ruby like they are in Java. I'm just pointing out other, potentially more effective ways to write re-usable code. Cheers, David