From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2013-01-10T16:29:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Extending class

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Calvin Bornhofen
<calvin.bornhofen@web.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't know if my tip applies for you (haven't worked with neither Rails
> nor Mongoid), but your scenario looks like subclassing is the way to go; you
> have a UserForForum class, which is a more specialized form of User.

I also believe that is what is called for here.

> A way of extending a class like a module doesn't exist in Ruby afaik.

Well, it does because you can extend *anything*:

irb(main):001:0> module M; def honk; puts "---"; end end
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> o = Object.new
=> #<Object:0x8004cf9c>
irb(main):003:0> o.extend M
=> #<Object:0x8004cf9c>
irb(main):004:0> o.honk
---
=> nil

Kind regards

robert

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