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

Question

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

Take a look at this : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1251178/calling-another-method-in-super-class-in-ruby — Ta Duy Anh, Oct 13 '12 at 07:38
Yep, thanks for that. i hope ruby can do better than this, cause it's not as elegant as the rest of ruby — Elmor, Oct 13 '12 at 07:49

Elmor · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-21T10:20:06.060

2

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

edited Nov 21 '12 at 10:20

answered Oct 13 '12 at 07:50

Elmor

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