A simple mixin with extend

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A mixin is just a module that can be added (mixed in) to a class. one way to do it is with the extend method. The extend method adds methods of the mixin as class methods.

module SomeMixin
  def foo
    puts "foo!"
  end
end

class Bar
  extend SomeMixin
  def baz
    puts "baz!"
  end
end

b = Bar.new
b.baz         # => "baz!"
b.foo         # NoMethodError, as the method was NOT added to the instance
Bar.foo       # => "foo!"
# works only on the class itself

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