Chapter2-Organizing Objects With Classes

Chapter2-Organizing Objects With Classes/instance_and_singleton_methods.rb

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+#Methods that are defined inside a class and intented for use by 
+#all instances of class, are called as instance methods
+
+#Methods that are defined for one particular object, as in
+# def ticket.price are called singleton methods.
+
+class Ticket
+  #instance method
+  def event
+    puts "This event can apply to all instances of the ticket class"
+  end
+end
+
+ticket = Ticket.new
+ticket.event
+
+puts "========================================================================="
+
+bobs_ticket = Ticket.new
+
+#Singleton method
+def bobs_ticket.price
+  puts "This event can only be applied to the instance of object named 'ticket'"
+end
+bobs_ticket.price
+
+puts "========================================================================="
+
+#If you try to use the singleton method on a different instance, it will show you error
+ticket_instance = Ticket.new
+ticket_instance.price
+