Uninitialized constant from the superclass

Question

I have a FUU constante inside Foo and Foo2 classes, and in order to DRY my code, I moved a method inside the BaseStuff superclass. Just like this:

class BaseStuff
  def to_s
    FUU
  end
end

class Foo < BaseStuff
  FUU = "ok"
end

class Foo2 < BaseStuff
  FUU = "ok2"
end

But my problem is that, after:

a = Foo.new
puts a.to_s

I get this error:

NameError: uninitialized constant BaseStuff::FUU

Is there a best practice to fix this?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 01 '12 at 16:42

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class Foo < BaseStuff
  ::FUU = "ok"
end

answered Apr 01 '12 at 16:42

mikdiet

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Waw, works well! However this may be tricky to use in my case, 'cause I'm adding this constant dynamically. Thanks anyway. – T5i Apr 01 '12 at 16:50

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 01 '12 at 16:42

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class BaseStuff
  FUU = nil
  def to_s
    self.class::FUU
  end
end

class Foo < BaseStuff
  FUU = "ok"
end

class Foo2 < BaseStuff
  FUU = "ok2"
end

a = Foo.new
puts a.to_s # => ok

puts Foo2.new.to_s # => ok2

answered Apr 01 '12 at 16:42

evfwcqcg

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Uninitialized constant from the superclass

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