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Ruby creates an anonymous class with the name of the module you are including and puts it in the ancestors chain.
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module Printable | |
def print(message) | |
puts message | |
end | |
end | |
class Animal | |
include Printable | |
def speak | |
print("##") | |
end | |
end | |
class Cow < Animal | |
def speak | |
print("MOO") | |
end | |
end | |
# > Cow.ancestors | |
# => [Cow, Animal, Printable, Object, PP::ObjectMixin, Kernel, BasicObject] | |
# 'superclass' method skips the Printable module | |
# > Animal.superclass | |
# => Object | |
cow = Cow.new | |
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