#614 calling a 'class' method on an object's metaclass should invoke the class method of the object's class

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calling a 'class' method on an object's metaclass should invoke the class method of the object's class

Reported by Sam Aaron | June 22nd, 2008 @ 01:50 AM | in 1.0 preview

Try executing the attached file (created to aid my understanding of Ruby's object model). In Rubinius it fails at the following line:

puts "b_with_meta.metaclass.cheese: #{b_with_meta.metaclass.cheese}"

However, on all other versions of Ruby (MRI, JRuby, MacRuby, Ruby-1-9), the code executes completely and produces the following output:

A.cheese: edam

B.cheese: stilton

a.cheese: shropshire blue

b.cheese: cheddar

b_with_meta.cheese: cheshire

b_with_meta.metaclass.cheese: stilton

b_with_meta_meta.cheese: brie

b_with_meta_meta.metaclass.cheese: gouda

b_with_meta_meta.metaclass.metaclass.cheese: wensleydale

Ryan Davis June 23rd, 2008 @ 03:50 PM
- → Assigned user changed from “” to “Wilson Bilkovich”
Sam Aaron October 29th, 2008 @ 03:53 AM
- → Tag changed from “” to “bug”
This seems to be fixed with the new C++ VM.

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