Mixins

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Mixins are a beautiful way to achieve something similar to multiple inheritance. It allows us to inherit or rather include methods defined in a module into a class. These methods can be included as either instance or class methods. The below example depicts this design.

module SampleModule

  def self.included(base)
    base.extend ClassMethods
  end

  module ClassMethods

    def method_static
      puts "This is a static method"
    end

  end

  def insta_method
    puts "This is an instance method"
  end

end

class SampleClass
  include SampleModule
end

sc = SampleClass.new

sc.insta_method

prints "This is an instance method"

sc.class.method_static

prints "This is a static method"

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