Referencing standard Date class from custom Date class (Ruby)

Asked Jun 06 '16 at 20:01

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I have a module which holds a custom implementation of a Date. Under certain conditions, I need to instantiate a standard Date:

# lib/carbon_date.rb
require 'date'

module CarbonDate
  class Date
    def initialize(...)
      # This constructor is called by some_method()
    end

    def some_method
      standard_date = Date.new(2016, 6, 6) # Calls CarbonDate::Date.new() erroneously
      # ... 
    end
  end
end

The method some_method() is calling the constructor of CarbonDate::Date. How to I explicitly scope it to the standard library's Date?

asked Jun 06 '16 at 20:01

Bradley Marques

In pry, issuing `cd Date` and then `self` just shows `Date` with no containing modules. – Bradley Marques Jun 06 '16 at 20:08
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`::Date.new` should work as it will reference the Top Level namespace – engineersmnky Jun 06 '16 at 20:30
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@engineersmnky, thanks, that did the trick. Would you like to post that as an actual answer and I can accept it? – Bradley Marques Jun 06 '16 at 20:46

Referencing standard Date class from custom Date class (Ruby)

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