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Ruby Ruby Foundations Modules Extend and Include: Part 1

Posted by Cory DeGarmo
Cory DeGarmo
647 Points

"Extending" the say_hello method is like taking local method and making it global?

I'm really not sure I quite understand it but thats what I have.

1 Answer

Jason Seifer
STAFF
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Jason Seifer
Jason Seifer
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Hey Cory DeGarmo what we're doing is showing two different ways of augmenting one class or variable with a module. Basically you use include to augment a class with instance methods and extend for class methods. Check out this article for a more in depth explanation.