I am pretty new to Ruby and have learned it syntax along with singleton methods. I understand how to create and use them. But why use them?
Can someone give me a few real world cases where using singleton methods are helpful?
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I am pretty new to Ruby and have learned it syntax along with singleton methods. I understand how to create and use them. But why use them?
Can someone give me a few real world cases where using singleton methods are helpful?
Thank You
Maybe you want to do some debugging? Say you have a collection of objects, and you know one of them acts up while being iterated over alongside it’s siblings… so you modify a problematic method to wrap it in some logging / tracing code that saves you having to read pages of logging statements for the 100 other items.
That’s at least one contrived example I can think of.