On 04/04/2010, at 7:32 AM, David Chelimsky wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Vojto Rinik <zero0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello RSpec users! >> I have one abstract class and a few classes that inherit from that abstract >> one. > > Ruby doesn't have abstract classes. You can have a base class that you > don't _intend_ to instantiate directly, but there's nothing stopping > you from doing so, so it's not like an abstract class in java, which > you actually can't instantiate directly. > > I've seen some cases where the initialize method is made private so > you can't just call Foo.new, so it sort of feels like an abstract > class, but even in that case you can still use send() to instantiate > one in a test: > > AbstractIshClass.send(:new) >
How about if you overrode new and __new__ ? Julian. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
