Hi Jordon, Thanks for your information and I agree on wat your saying.
Thanks, Senthil Srinivasan On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 19:32:01 UTC+5:30, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:46 AM, thil <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Self.methods is static methods using the class name itself you can call > the > > methods and is not available to the instance of the class. > > There is no such thing as static methods in Ruby. self.method_name > (or sometimes self.class.method_name) are instance methods on the > singleton instance of the object (in 1.9 you can access the singleton > via singleton_class too). Since everything is an object in Ruby > (literally) you have multiple types of instances, in his case he is > accessing instance methods on the singleton (or anonymous class or > eigen, however you want to label it) vs instance methods on /an/ > instance of that object. > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/3b1rrqgtyPYJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

