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Elmor
Elmor

Reputation: 4895

Calling a parent::method from a child::method

Good day, i'm new to ruby. I want to know how to run a parent method from a method of a child class ? in java it would be like

class Child
  ..
  def something_else
    super.something
  end
end

and in php

parent::method_name();

And could you tell me how to do it in Ruby? found only this, and it's kind of ugly using alias_method_chain

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1871

Answers (1)

Elmor
Elmor

Reputation: 4895

as Taiki suggested the comment in another thread stated 

class B < A

  alias :super_a :a

  def a
    b()
  end
  def b
    super_a()
  end
end

hope there are other ways...

UPDATE:

at long last, call super() instead of super_a(). not sure what it does completely though

Upvotes: 2

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