Yes, it is a basic feature of ruby that you can reopen a class definition. I forgot about that.
On Sep 3, 4:05 pm, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 September 2012 19:08, John Merlino <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The ActionView module is declared several times in the Rails source: > > > rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/base.rb,rails/actionpack/lib/ > > action_view/buffers.rb,rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/digestor.rb, > > rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/asset_tag_helpers/ > > asset_paths.rb, and the list goes on and on. > > > How is it able to be declared like this in multiple files without the > > previous definition of it being overwritten? > > It is a basic feature of Ruby that you can re-open a class definition > and add or redefine methods. > > Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
