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steelaz on Nov 10, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Confident Code

Is there a concept of namespace in Ruby? I did a quick search but I'm still not sure.

Confusion on Nov 10, 2011 [–]

Certainly: modules and classes serve as namespaces

  module Foo
    class Bar
    end
  end

Bar is now only accessible as Foo::Bar. You could have a Baz::Bar class that is entirely separate from this Bar.

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