What is the use of 'abstract_method'?

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What is the use of ‘abstract_method’ in rails?

–Rahul

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On Jul 1, 6:01 am, Rahul P s [email protected] wrote:

What is the use of ‘abstract_method’ in rails?

http://www.noobkit.com/show/ruby/gems/io/rio/module/abstract_method.html
defines it as:
“abstract_method(symbol, …) extends Module defines a method which
raises AbstractMethodCalled used in a base class to ensure that
subclasses define an implementation”

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It is used to cap the parent class of an inheritance.

so if class Foo < Bar

and Bar.some_method you want it to have to be defined in all
subclasess (Foo and others…) you do like such:

class Bar
def some_method
abstract_method
end
end

then all subclasses must implement some_method or it will complain
when being called (Note, untill it is called, everything is sweet,
this can casue bugs…)