Question

I’m trying to define a couple of modules to easily add in some instance and class methods to other classes, here’s what I’m doing:

module Foo
  module Bar
    def speak
      puts "hey there"
    end
  end
  module Baz
    extend Foo::Bar

    def welcome
      puts "welcome, this is an instance method"
    end
  end
end

class Talker
  include Foo::Baz
end

Talker.new.welcome
Talker.speak

The output of this is:

welcome, this is an instance method
undefined method 'speak' for Talker.class (NoMethodError)

I was expecting Talker to have the ‘speak’ method since it includes Foo::Baz which itself extends Foo::Bar.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

You can try this:

module Baz
  extend Foo::Bar

  def self.included(base)
    base.send :extend, Foo::Bar
  end

  def welcome
    puts "welcome, this is an instance method"
  end
end

This will auto-extend all classes in wich Baz is included.

PS:

extend Foo::Bar in module Baz was in original snippet, this code do not influence on method def self.included(base).