Determining if initialize is defined in child class

[Jim Freeze]

Hi

I am looking for a method that will tell me if a method
is defined in a child class. The problem is when looking
at child classes for with the parent has the method in
question defined.

class C
private_method_defined?fred) #=> false
private_method_defined?initialize) #=> true
end

Is there some method that will return false for the above
initialize method:

class C
method_defined_in_this_class?(fred #=> false
method_defined_in_this_class?initialize) #=> false
def fred; end
method_defined_in_this_class?(fred #=> true
end

Ultimately I want to be able to do the following:

class Parent
def initialize; end
end

class Child < Parent
method_defined_in_this_class?initialize) #=> false
end

 

[Eric Mahurin]

Hi
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I am looking for a method that will tell me if a method
is defined in a child class. The problem is when looking
at child classes for with the parent has the method in
question defined.
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class C
private_method_defined?fred) #=3D> false
private_method_defined?initialize) #=3D> true
end
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Is there some method that will return false for the above
initialize method:
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class C
method_defined_in_this_class?(fred #=3D> false
method_defined_in_this_class?initialize) #=3D> false
def fred; end
method_defined_in_this_class?(fred #=3D> true
end
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Ultimately I want to be able to do the following:
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class Parent
def initialize; end
end
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class Child < Parent
method_defined_in_this_class?initialize) #=3D> false
end

How about this:

private_instance_methods(false).include?("initialize")




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[Jim Freeze]

How about this:

private_instance_methods(false).include?("initialize")

Ah, thanks. That's what I was looking for.