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Comprehensive Ruby Programming

You're reading from   Comprehensive Ruby Programming From beginner to confident programmer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280649
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jordan Hudgens Jordan Hudgens
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Preface 1. Introduction to the Ruby Programming Language 2. Ruby Variables FREE CHAPTER 3. Ruby Strings 4. Working with Numbers in Ruby 5. Ruby Methods 6. Ruby Iterators and Loops 7. Ruby Collections 8. Ruby Conditionals 9. Object-Oriented Programming in Ruby 10. Working with the Filesystem in Ruby 11. Error Handling in Ruby 12. Regular Expressions in Ruby 13. Searching with grep in Ruby 14. Ruby Gems 15. Ruby Metaprogramming 16. Ruby Web Frameworks 17. Working with APIs in Ruby 18. Ruby Algorithms 19. Machine Learning

What are the differences between class and instance methods in Ruby?

Even though we haven't covered classes in Ruby, I thought it would be good to show you the differences between class and instance methods in Ruby since it's important to see the different behaviors.

For now, you can ignore the class syntax and focus on the functionality, especially the way in which both the method types are called.

I'm going to create a class and add two methods into it, the first being a class method and the second an instance method:

class Invoice 
# Class method
def self.print_out
"Printed out invoice"
end

# Instance method
def convert_to_pdf
"Converted to PDF"
end
end

If you notice, the only difference in the syntax is that I used the self word for class methods, and the name by itself for instance methods.

Now, when I want to call...

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