Mixins

Ruby Mixins

Sun, 10/18/2009 - 07:32 am

I've been playing around with Ruby's mixins today and It's really fun. Here's a snippet:

  1. module Greeter
  2.  
  3.   def who_am_i?
  4.     "#{self.class.name}"
  5.   end
  6.  
  7.   def greet
  8.     puts "Hello #{@name}"
  9.   end
  10.  
  11. end
  12.  
  13. class Student
  14.  
  15.   def initialize(n)
  16.     @name = n
  17.   end
  18.  
  19.   include Greeter
  20. end
  21.  
  22. class Teacher
  23.  
  24.   def initialize(n)
  25.     @name = n
  26.   end
  27.  
  28.   include Greeter
  29. end

Now fire up irb and do this:

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Mixins, Modules, Ruby
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