Ruby - More Classes and Objects

More Classes and Objects - Ruby module R108

Beyond the basic classes, you'll wish to use the power of interitance, encapsulation and polymorphism. Don't worry if these are new terms to you - they're explained in this course module.

This topic is presented on public course Ruby Programming

Examples from our training material

disc2	Comparator methods (larger and smaller)
dub2	With $ - variables are global
dub3	no returns on a Ruby method
dubber	default - variables are LOCAL
inh1.rb	Inheritance in Ruby
ob2.rb	A class with some class (static) and singleton members
olop.rb	Operator overloading

Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from http://www.training-notes.co.uk.

Topics covered in this module

Public, private and protected visibility.
Singletons and defs.
Inheritance mixins, and super.
Destructors and garbage collection.
Namespaces and modules.
Hooks.
Freezing objects.
Calling methods with code blocks.
Looking inside objects - reflection.

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