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| There are two distinct cases that I will refer to in order to explain the behaviour of 'self' in ruby | |
| First is within class 'instances'. When self is called within a class instance (instance of an object of said class), self is | |
| in this case referring to that particular instance. | |
| For example: | |
| def my_method | |
| p self | |
| end | |
| my_object = Object_Class.new | |
| my_object.my_method | |
| In the above example, my_method would print the object my_object to the console. | |
| Case two is outside the scope of an class instance. In this situation, self is referring to the class itself. For example, if we were to reference | |
| self inside of a class method (method prefixed by self), or outside the scope of any method definitions, we would be referencing | |
| the class itself. | |
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