description, what is it?

[Zhenning Guan]

I read a class like this.what's the description work for?


class Employee
description "xxxxxxxx"
#some code continue here
end

 

[Sebastian Hungerecker]

I read a class like this.what's the description work for?


class Employee
=C2=A0description "xxxxxxxx"
=C2=A0#some code continue here
end

Well, it's not part of ruby core/stdlib, but it seems to be an instance met=
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of Module or Class (or maybe Object) that, judging by its name, stores the=
=20
description of a class/module (or maybe object) and presumably allows you t=
o=20
acces this description from a documentationt or source code browser of some=
=20
sort - or something like that.

HTH,
Sebastian
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[Hassan Schroeder]

Well, it's not part of ruby core/stdlib

erm, uh, at <http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/> I find "description" listed
as a method of Generators::HtmlMethod

 

[Sebastian Hungerecker]

erm, uh, at <http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/> I find "description" listed
as a method of Generators::HtmlMethod =A0

Yeah, but that's not the one used in his code snippet.

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