The @klass variable also could == some_object.class If this is the case, then it could be a class method call, but still don't see the necessity to use #send. -- Thanks, Ivan Povalyukhin
On Jan 27, 6:39 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > David Kahn wrote in post #978011: > > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:01 PM, William Fisk > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> Ah, thanks, yes that will probably be the reason. > > > Right... send comes in real handy in testing private methods, use it all > > the > > time > > Then you've got bigger problems. You shouldn't be testing your private > methods; that's poking too deeply into an object's implementation. You > should only ever test things that can be called from outside an object. > > If a private method is an intermediate value in a computation, just test > the end result. If a private method really needs to be tested > separately, then it's telling you that it wants to be public. > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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 this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
