Is Class declaration an eyewash in ruby? Is everything really object oriented?

Question

class Person
  def name
   puts \"Dave\"
  end
end

puts Person.object_id

There are only two ways of accessing methods :

1) Someclass.method in

Answer 1

Yes, classes in Ruby are instances of class Class. In fact, you can create the same class just with:

Person = Class.new do
  define_method :name do
    puts 'Dave'
  end
end

Then, you can just type Person.new.name and it will work exactly as your class.

Checking that Person is an instance of class Class is as easy as typing in your repl Person.class and you get Class in return.

Answer 2

Yes, Ruby classes are objects:

>> String.is_a? Object
=> true
>> String.methods.count
=> 131
>> Fixnum.methods.count
=> 128