Hi matt,

thanks you very much for your explanation and your "Ruby introduction"
book link.
http://www.apeth.com/ruby/02justenoughruby.html


regards,
salai

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:55 PM, matt neuburg<matt / tidbits.com> wrote:
> salai <sayakyi / gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Class Method and Singletons are the same?
>
> No, not quite.
>
>> Can you explain me with some simple code.
>
> It's very simple. There are really no class methods; there are only
> instance methods. It is convenient to talk about class methods, but in
> Ruby things are very elegant: a class is itself an instance (of the
> Class class), and so a "class method" is merely an instance method of
> that instance (i.e. an instance method of an instance of the Class
> class).
>
> Okay, so when you define a class method by saying
>
> class C
> end
> def C.my_method
> end
>
> ...you are doing EXACTLY the same thing that you are doing when you
> define an instance method on any individual instance:
>
> thing = Object.new
> def thing.my_method
> end
>
> Exactly WHAT same thing? You are opening the instance and defining an
> instance method applicable to that instance only. That is the
> "singleton". So when you define a class method you are actually creating
> a singleton instance method on that Class instance.
>
> m.
>
> PS By the way, in a completely different context (a proposed book about
> rb-appscript) I have written an "introduction to Ruby" chapter that
> might help you with these concepts. It's here:
>
> http://www.apeth.com/ruby/02justenoughruby.html
>
> Hope this helps.
>
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