Class ExistingName

Ruby
1

Recently i created a file object.rb

class Object

I forgot that ruby already reserved this name, so I renamed the class.

But I was still curious. Is there a way to use a “class Object”?

I guess there is no easy way, many things would have to be renamed.

Still, I write this here because perhaps one of you has some idea.

2

You could place it inside a module:

Thanks that helped.

3

Marc H. wrote:

Recently i created a file object.rb

class Object

I forgot that ruby already reserved this name, so I renamed the class.

But I was still curious. Is there a way to use a “class Object”?

I guess there is no easy way, many things would have to be renamed.

Still, I write this here because perhaps one of you has some idea.

You could place it inside a module:

module A

class Object

def foo
  "foo"
end

end

end

obj = A::Object.new
p obj.foo #=> foo
obj = Object.new
p obj.foo #=> NoMethodError

Even if you include it, Object isn’t overwritten:

include A

obj = Object.new
p obj.foo #=> NoMethodError

Marvin