MacRuby, inheritance and alias

example.rb

###################################
### FAILING CASE
### This emulates the relationship
### defined in rake-pipeline.rb
### and rake-pipeline/matcher.rb
###################################

class Greeter
  class SpanishGreeter < Greeter
    def say_hola(name)
      puts "Hola #{name}!"
    end
  end
end

class Greeter
  def say_hello(name)
    puts "Hello #{name}!"
  end

  alias say_hola say_hello

  def greet(name)
    say_hola name
  end
end

puts "Greeter"
Greeter.new.greet "Joe"
# => "Hello Joe"

puts "En español"
Greeter::SpanishGreeter.new.greet "José" # <-- should print "Hola Joe!"
# => "Hello Joe"

###################################
### PASSING CASE
###################################

class Greeter
  def say_hello(name)
    puts "Hello #{name}!"
  end

  def say_hola(name); say_hello(name) end

  def greet(name)
    say_hola name
  end
end

puts "Greeter"
Greeter.new.greet "Joe"
# => "Hello Joe"

puts "En español"
Greeter::SpanishGreeter.new.greet "José" # <-- should print "Hola José!"
# => "Hola José!"