What does :: do in this case?

Ruby
1

Hi

This is in the Rails acts_as_list module but I think is a general Ruby
question. I don’t understand the syntax of the ::#{self.name}
statement. I haven’t seen :: without something preceding it. I think I
understand what this method enables the plugin to do: use the class
name in which the module is mixed.

Thanks,
Peter

module ActiveRecord
module Acts
module List

  def acts_as_list_class
    ::#{self.name}
  end

end

end
end

2

On 11/20/05, [email protected] [email protected] wrote:

This is in the Rails acts_as_list module but I think is a general Ruby
question. I don’t understand the syntax of the ::#{self.name}
statement. I haven’t seen :: without something preceding it. I think I
understand what this method enables the plugin to do: use the class
name in which the module is mixed.

Unless that’s in a section of string code to be evaled, that’s
actually a syntax error. (The #{} syntax is only valid in strings).

However, if you do:

::File

You mean specifically that you want the File constant visible at the top
level.

-austin