Comments on: Ruby Objects, Class-Objects and MetaClass-Objects http://www.dyrathror.com/2009/07/ruby-objects-class-objects-and-metaclass-objects/ Stay tuned ... Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:55:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: HG http://www.dyrathror.com/2009/07/ruby-objects-class-objects-and-metaclass-objects/comment-page-1/#comment-147 HG Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:55:24 +0000 http://www.dyrathror.com/?p=368#comment-147 The use of Wrapper classes can solve problems with non oop fixnum implementation in ruby. class Fixnum1 def timesSayZef times { puts "Zef" } end end In Ruby when you define a class that already exists (such as Fixnum, which represents a number, such as 100), it will merge the two definitions. So in this case I would add a timesSayZef method to the Fixnum class. When I now do this: 10.timesSayZefit will print: Zef Zef Zef Zef Zef Zef Zef Zef Zef Zef The use of Wrapper classes can solve problems with non oop fixnum implementation in ruby.

class Fixnum1
def timesSayZef
times { puts “Zef” }
end
end
In Ruby when you define a class that already exists (such as Fixnum, which represents a number, such as 100), it will merge the two definitions. So in this case I would add a timesSayZef method to the Fixnum class. When I now do this:

10.timesSayZefit will print:
Zef
Zef
Zef
Zef
Zef
Zef
Zef
Zef
Zef
Zef

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