Ruby Clasess

[Ruby Users Ruby Users]

How do I get all the classes that descend from a parent class ? I found
solution on
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2393697/look-up-all-descendants-of-a-class-in-ruby.

But I want to know, is there a standard method or not?

 

[7stud --]

No there is not.

 

[Ruby Users Ruby Users]

7stud -- wrote in post #1000123:

No there is not.

THX

 

[Josh Cheek]

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class Animal

def self.inherited(subclass)
children << subclass
end

def self.children
@children ||= []
end

def self.descendants
children.map do |child|
[child].concat child.descendants
end.flatten
end

end

Dog = Class.new Animal
Cat = Class.new Animal
Tabby = Class.new Cat

RUBY_VERSION # => "1.9.2"
Animal.children # => [Dog, Cat]
Animal.descendants # => [Dog, Cat, Tabby]

Cat.descendants # => [Tabby]

 

[Josh Cheek]

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

class Animal

def self.inherited(subclass)
children << subclass
end

def self.children
@children ||= []
end

def self.descendants
children.map do |child|
[child].concat child.descendants
end.flatten
end

end

Dog = Class.new Animal
Cat = Class.new Animal
Tabby = Class.new Cat

RUBY_VERSION # => "1.9.2"
Animal.children # => [Dog, Cat]
Animal.descendants # => [Dog, Cat, Tabby]

Cat.descendants # => [Tabby]

Accidentally pasted the code over the entire response >.<

I meant to say you could whip something up without too much effort (as 7stud
said, there is no standard way).