modules

[John Merlino]

module ActionView
module Helpers
module FormHelper
def form_for(foo, bar)
instantiate_builder(foo, bar)
end
def instantiate_builder(foo,bar)
self
end
end
end
end

"self" in instantiate_builder refers to
ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper. self it will have access to methods
in ActionView::Helpers (its parent module), correct?

[Frederick Cheung]

Not necessarily. 

if you do 

class Foo

  include ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper

end

then 

f = Foo.new

f.instantiate_builder

then self in instantiate_builder is f. Whether or not other modules in ActionView::Helpers have been included in Foo is not guaranteed (in the particular case of view helpers in views then all the other submodules of ActionView::Helpers would normally have been included)

Fred

[John Merlino]

thanks for response

On Sep 6, 5:32 am, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[John Merlino]

There's another situation like this:

  ActiveSupport.on_load(:action_view) do
    cattr_accessor(:default_form_builder)
{ ::ActionView::Helpers::FormBuilder }
  end

This is ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper. But I believe that self in
the context of the block refers to ActionView, because on_load
executes the block only after ActionView is loaded and then yields
ActionView to the block so that default_form_builder will become a
class method on ActionView, which returns the FormBuilder class
object.