Include vs extend

Rails
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Can any one give simple definition for include and extend since iam
stumbled over the examples in the net

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Aren’t they the same thing?

On Dec 18, 2007 5:10 PM, Ayyanar from Aspire Systems <
[email protected]> wrote:

Can any one give simple definition for include and extend since iam
stumbled over the examples in the net

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Ryan B.

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No Ryan, it is not same. I think extend will allow the access to the
class methods of the extended module

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On 18 Dec 2007, at 07:05, Ayyanar from Aspire Systems wrote:

No Ryan, it is not same. I think extend will allow the access to the
class methods of the extended module

Have a look at

(this is a ruby rather than a rails question, so consider posting this
sort of thing to the ruby-talk mailing list)

Fred

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I have created a screencast for this :
http://www.zepho.com/download/IncludeExtend.mov.zip
Enjoy!

On Dec 17, 2007 10:40 PM, Ayyanar from Aspire Systems <

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I have put in different cases together.

http://www.neeraj.name/503/include-extend-module_eval-class_eval