Hi All, I am trying to create and use our own utility classes that can have class methods and be used in many controllers. There is an inconsistent behaviour. I am not sure if I am missing anything. Here are the code snippets. In controller
def test render :text => Utility.datetest end
utility classes are part of the model folder structure where I added couple of ruby files and created classes in them.
class ScheduleUtility
def ScheduleUtility.datetest "Time now is #{Time.now}" end def ScheduleUtility.test "Time now is #{Time.now}" end end
class Utility def Utility.datetest "yesterdays date:#{Time.now-1.day}" end def Utility.test "yesterdays date:#{Time.now-1.day}" end end
When I use the Utility class's method it works perfectly fine but with the ScheduleUtility it gives a no method error undefined method `datetest' for ScheduleUtility:Class
And a further anomaly is that if I define a method by the name "test" it doesn't work in either of the cases .
these are the respective error messages private method `test' called for ScheduleUtility:Class private method `test' called for Utility:Class
would be glad if there were any valid reasons for such behaviour thanks
