Calling method in parent class from subclass methods in Ruby

Question

I've used super to initialize parent class but I cannot see any way of calling parent class from subclass methods.

I know PHP and other languages do have this feature but cannot find a good way to do this in Ruby.

What would one do in this situation?

Answer 1

If the method is the same name, i.e. you're overriding a method you can simply use super. Otherwise you can use an alias_method or a binding.

class Parent   def method   end end  class Child < Parent   alias_method :parent_method, :method   def method     super   end    def other_method     parent_method     #OR     Parent.instance_method(:method).bind(self).call   end end