Example: Association Class

A class can have a relationship with another class. One of relationship between classes is association. For example, there are two classes associated each other, Class1 and Class2.

If you generate Ruby code using this extension, there will be two separated .rb files:

class1.rb

require_relative 'class2.rb'

class Class1
  attr_accessor :class2

  def initialize()
    @class2 = Class2.new
  end

  def to_s
    "Your string representation of the object will be written here."
  end
end

class2.rb

require_relative 'class1.rb'

class Class2
  attr_accessor :class1

  def initialize()
    @class1 = Class1.new
  end

  def to_s
    "Your string representation of the object will be written here."
  end
end

Another example is two classes associated each other (same with previous example), but a class in a package. Let's say, Util package.

The extensions will generate two separated .rb files as well, but one file is in a folder. That folder refers to a class that belongs to Util package.

class1.rb

require_relative 'util/class2.rb'

class Class1
  attr_accessor :class2

  def initialize()
    @class2 = Class2.new
  end

  def to_s
    "Your string representation of the object will be written here."
  end
end

util/class2.rb

require_relative '../class1.rb'

module Util
  class Class2
    attr_accessor :class1

    def initialize()
      @class1 = Class1.new
    end

    def to_s
      "Your string representation of the object will be written here."
    end
  end
end

Note that examples above use default configuration of the extension.