Calling method in parent class from subclass methods in Ruby

Question

I\'ve used super to initialize parent class but I cannot see any way of calling parent class from subclass methods.

I know PHP and other languages do ha

Answer 1

Others have said it already well. Just one additional note of caution:

The syntax super.foo to call method foo in the super class is not supported. Rather it will call the super-method and on the returned result, try to call foo.

  class A
    def a
      "A::a"
    end
  end

  class B < A
    def a
      "B::a is calling #{super.a}" # -> undefined method `a` for StringClass 
    end
  end