Inheritance in Ruby, in pictures – Jake Zimmerman

05/01/2024
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This is as simple as it gets. Most languages use the extends keyword to inherit from a class. Ruby cutely uses the < token, but otherwise it’s very straightforward. When we call on_parent on an instance of Child, Ruby finds the right method to call by walking the inheritance hierarchy up to where that method is defined on Parent.I picture Ruby’s < operator as working something like this:.
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