Why cant there be classes inside methods in Ruby?

Question

Can I create Ruby classes within functions bodies ? I seem to be getting error which tells me its not allowed but I think it should be as classes are too objects here.

Answer 1

The question is about creating classes, but in the comment you talk about creating anonymous objects. Not the same thing.

If you need anonymous object, you can always do Object.new. If you need simple struct-like container, you should take a look at Struct class. With it, you can do something like:

def foo
  anon_obj = Struct.new(:prop1, :prop2).new
  anon_obj.prop1 = 123
  anon_obj.prop2 = 'bar'

  return anon_obj
end

BTW, Ruby is a strongly typed language. But it is a dynamic typed as well, and you can't expect it to behave like static-typed.