Ruby on Rails Wednesday, September 26, 2012

It would be more correct to say that Object includes the Kernel module.


Dheeraj Kumar

On Thursday 27 September 2012 at 6:10 AM, John Merlino wrote:

inheritance chain:

Class -> Module -> Object

Kernel.is_a?(Module) # => true

Kernel is an instance of Module, which in turn inherits from Object.

So how is Kernel an ancestor of Object?

I found it on line 262 of "The Ruby Programming Language":

"The Kernel module is an ancestor of Object."

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