Comments on Beech Bonanza: Making Constructors Protected in Ruby

http://github.com/bjeanes/make_abstract

I u...

2008-05-15T18:54:00.000-07:00

http://github.com/bjeanes/make_abstract

I used your example to create a simple way to make abstract classes. Just:

require 'make_abstract'

then to make any class abstract (and leave it's child classes untouched):

class ImAbstractNow
make_abstract
end

I agree, Shane, an abstract base class is not a ve...

2007-08-24T20:49:00.000-07:00

I agree, Shane, an abstract base class is not a very Ruby thing to be doing. But if you have to, I would prob skip all the protected madness and go right for:

class Party
attr :name
def initialize name
@name = name
raise NoMethodError.new("Party is an abstract class and cannot be instantiated") if self.class == Party
end
end

just my two cents. Might use a different Error subclass.

I would rather see a method added to Class than th...

2007-08-23T15:04:00.000-07:00

I would rather see a method added to Class than the module approach.

http://grahamis.com/blog/2007/08/23/ruby-protected...

2007-08-23T00:37:00.000-07:00

http://grahamis.com/blog/2007/08/23/ruby-protected-constructors/

Comments on Beech Bonanza: Making Constructors Protected in Ruby

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I agree, Shane, an abstract base class is not a ve...

I would rather see a method added to Class than th...

http://grahamis.com/blog/2007/08/23/ruby-protected...

http://github.com/bjeanes/make_abstract

I u...