From: Steve Klabnik <steve@...>
Date: 2011-12-22T21:52:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing class instance variables from an instance?

>> In my case, I ended up solving it by adding an "abar" method that just
>> called "self.class.bar", although using it that way does feel a bit silly,
>> and makes the code less readable (an observer might ask what the difference
>> between "bar" and "abar" is, for example).
>
> A better alternative would be to do this:
>
> class Object
>  def my_class; self.class end
> end

If self.class.whatever is bothering you, the _better_ alternative is
to just drop the self.

class Whatever
   def something_with_class
     class.something
   end
end

rather than

self.class.something