How to call a base class method

jrobertson (James Robertson) — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:51:59 GMT

This Ruby example demonstrates using the keyword super to call the superclass method.



class Claw

  def grab(item)

    puts item + ' grabbed'

  end

end



class Hand < Claw

  def grab(item)

    super(item)

  end

end



h = Hand.new

h.grab('apple')

output



apple grabbed

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