From: Daniel Bretoi <lists@...>
Date: 2003-01-14T07:46:50+09:00
Subject: subclasses

Hello,

To determine the age of a file in days, I decided to extend on the
File::Stat class like this:

class File
  class Stat
    def age
      age = Time.now.to_i - self.mtime.to_i
      return age / 60 / 60 / 24
    end
   end
end

which, of course let's me find the age in days of a file by ding
something like File.stat("filename").age

My questions:

1. What if I want to do something like File.stat("filename").age.days ?
2. Is there a more elegant (different anway) way of defening my age
method?
3. More in general.. how does the notation File::Stat actually work? The
Class is File::Stat, yet I access Stat with lowercase letters.


db

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