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Ruby Ruby Modules Include and Extend Being Included

Posted by elk6
elk6
22,916 Points

Can somebody explain me the purpose of self.include?

Okay, i have been following the Ruby courses and all is being explained really well. For some reason though my head won't wrap around this self.include. I have watched the vid mutliple times and google some cases but I just don't get it.

What's going on here? The Fetcher module is already included in the dog class so why would you want to included that one in the module with the self.include method?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

2 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

See if this helps you: http://www.jimmycuadra.com/posts/self-in-ruby/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6669527/use-of-ruby-self-keyword

This is a great question, and it's a difficult thing to get down. I learned a little bit myself researching your question. Let me know if that helps.

Charles Cloud
Charles Cloud
6,134 Points
Charles Cloud
Charles Cloud
6,134 Points

My understanding is that it is basically this. The self.include method runs the code inside of that method whenever the module is included in a class.