Satish has a good blog post on the matter: http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/ruby_overriding_methods.html
You can certainly call super in your subclass before making any modifications or calling super based on a condition. I hope it helps, - Matt Sent from my iPhone On Sep 7, 2010, at 12:53, Robert Rice <rice.au...@pobox.com> wrote: > Thanks Matt: > > I didn't see super in the ruby-doc.org/ruby-1.9/index.html unless super is > short for superclass. > > Can I reach a superclass method without having the message go first to my > subclass override of the method? > > Bob Rice > > > On Sep 7, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Matt Aimonetti wrote: > >> No it's not unique to MacRuby (Ruby and Obj-C support that feature) and yes >> you can pass other arguments :) >> >> - Matt >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Sep 7, 2010, at 12:16, Robert Rice <rice.au...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >>> Questions on the super method: >>> >>> Is the super method unique to MacRuby? >>> >>> super forwards the current message to the superclass with the same method >>> name and arguments. Is there a way to send a message to the superclass >>> method with different arguments either from within the subclass method of >>> the same name or from outside the subclass method of the same name to >>> bypass the subclass method? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Bob Rice >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacRuby-devel mailing list >>> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >>> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel >> > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
