Inheritance: Parent not using Child method.

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Setup:

class Parent     def foo         bar()     end

    def bar         # more stuff     end end

class Child < Parent     def bar         # over riding bar     end end

obj = Child.new obj.foo

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Brenton B wrote:

Why does it call Parent#bar instead of Child#bar? ... according to inheritance and method overriding Parent#bar is replaced with Child#bar ... so when Parent#foo calls some method named 'bar', should it not call Child#bar due to obj being an instance of Child??

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Where am I going wrong?

What is your evidence that the parental bar() gets called? Post your question, with that addition, that to the Ruby group(s).

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Hmm ... good though, I'll throw it over there.

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I'm a tool ... never mind got it going ... there was a mix up with alias_method, wasn't setup the way I thought it was ... ugh.