What Happens When You Call a Method?
Where you learn that a humble method call requires a lot of work on Ruby’s part and you shed light on a twisted piece of code.
After some hours working on Bookworm, you and Bill already feel confident enough to fix some minor bugs here and there—but now, as your working day is drawing to a close, you find yourself stuck. Attempting to fix a long-standing bug, you’ve stumbled upon a tangle of classes, modules, and methods that you can’t make heads or tails of.
“Stop!” Bill shouts, startling you. “This code is too complicated. To understand it, you have to learn in detail what happens when you call a method.” And before you can react, he dives into yet another lecture.
When you call a method, Ruby does ...
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