From: Fily Salas <fs_tigre@...>
Date: 2011-11-11T03:50:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Navigating through the official Ruby documentation

Double WOW! for you two guys.

I'm always impress about the help I get here.

Very good information, it basically answers all of my questions.

One thing I see here is that I don't fully understand the big difference 
between Classes and Modules in Ruby but
you even read my mind and added a link.
>http://samwho.co.uk/blog/2011/09/12/ruby-mixins/

I was thinking that Modules were just a form of separating classes (Name 
Scopes for classes). The only language
I know a little bit is Actionscript 3.0 and it uses Packages to enclose 
classes but apparently in Ruby Modules
do this and more.

Thanks a lot Sam Rose

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>@Marvin Gülker
>No. Classes in Ruby are basically modules with the specific ability to
>create instances of themselves (via the ::new method).
As I mentioned above I need to have a better understanding about modules 
and classes.
>For example, arrays have a method #max, but you won’t find
>this in the documentation of the Array class. It comes from the Enumerable 
module.
The problem I see with this (if you want to call it a problem) is that 
for novice like me, there is no way to know what methods have been 
inherited from the module or other classes since they are not listed 
here, I could open the module or the class itself, but how do you know 
what methods have been inherited to other classes.

I asked for one thing and I always end up learning other things, 
awesome.  YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME!

I LOVE THIS FORUM

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