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The Ruby Workshop

You're reading from   The Ruby Workshop Develop powerful applications by writing clean, expressive code with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838642365
Length 544 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dániel Szabó Dániel Szabó
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Akshat Paul Akshat Paul
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Peter Philips Peter Philips
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Cheyne Wallace Cheyne Wallace
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Writing and Running Ruby Programs 2. Ruby Data Types and Operations FREE CHAPTER 3. Program Flow Ruby Methods 5. Object-Oriented programming with Ruby 6. Modules and Mixins 7. Introduction to Ruby Gems 8. Debugging with Ruby 9. Ruby Beyond the Basics l 10. Ruby Beyond the Basics ll 11. Introduction to Ruby on Rails l 12. Introduction to Ruby on Rails ll Appendix

Including Modules

Modules, in their simplest definition, are a way to wrap code into a bundle so the code can be reused within other code without needing to be duplicated.

This definition sounds very similar to that of a Ruby class. Specifically, what makes a Ruby module distinct is that it cannot be instantiated into an object like a class. It can, however, be included in a class so the methods and variables defined in the module are accessible by the class. This refers to the mixin property of modules. Also, the methods and variables in a class can also be accessible to the code in the module. Essentially, when a module is included in a class, Ruby treats that code as if it were written right into that class. All the previous concepts we learned about classes and inheritance still apply to the module code when called.

For instance, if you call a module method from inside a class, that module method calls super and it will call the super class method of the class that the module...

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