[Ruby]: Passing a Class instance member value to another Class function.

Question

I am writing a program to read files and search text in it. I have written the first initial steps. In the below given code you can see a symbol ** -- **. This where I want to pass member variable value of Class [CurrentFile].

Please also suggest what improvements I can do in this code.

class CurrentFile
    attr_accessor :currentFileName, :currentFileContent
  end

class OpenFile < CurrentFile
    def OpenFileToRead()  #Open file as read-only.
      thisFile = File.open(** ----- **, 'r')
      counter = 1

        begin
          file = File.new(thisFile, "r")
          while (line = file.gets)
            puts "#{counter}: #{line}"
            counter = counter + 1
          end
          file.close
        rescue => err
          puts "Exception: #{err}"
          err
        end #End of Begin block
    end #End of OpenFileToRead
  end #End of Class: OpenFile

fileToRead = CurrentFile.new #Create instance of CurrentFile Class
fileToRead.currentFileName = "C:\WorkSpace\SearchText\abc.php" #Set file name to read
myFile = OpenFile.new #Create instance of OpenFile Class

Answer 1

I think you just want to write currentFileName if you're trying to access that instance's currentFileName attribute.

Answer 2

You don't need two classes.

Since OpenFile inherits CurrentFile then you have currentFileName and currentFileContent attributes in OpenFile. This means you can use currentFileName in File.open.

fileToRead = OpenFile.new #Create instance of CurrentFile Class
fileToRead.currentFileName = "C:\WorkSpace\SearchText\abc.php" #Set file name to read
fileToRead.OpenFileToRead

Or if you want two classes than pass a currentFile instance as a parameter to OpenFile and don't inherit:

class OpenFile
    def initialize(file)
      @file = file
    end

    def OpenFileToRead()  #Open file as read-only.
      thisFile = File.open(@file.currentFileName, 'r')
      counter = 1

        begin
          file = File.new(thisFile, "r")
          while (line = file.gets)
            puts "#{counter}: #{line}"
            counter = counter + 1
          end
          file.close
        rescue => err
          puts "Exception: #{err}"
          err
        end
    end
  end

fileToRead = CurrentFile.new #Create instance of CurrentFile Class
fileToRead.currentFileName = "C:\WorkSpace\SearchText\abc.php" #Set file name to read
myFile = OpenFile.new(fileToRead) #Create instance of OpenFile Class
myFile.OpenFileToRead