Ruby: I want a class called 'Thread' - but there already is one...Module ?

Question

I think my brain died, but I thought there was a simple way of using 'Modules' in Ruby to create a namespace for my own classes - or did I dream that ?

What I'm after is the Ruby equivalent to the Java-way of putting my class defs in a package ...

Or do I have to just invent a new name for my objects ???

Answer 1

module ThreadReader

    class Thread
    ...
    end
end

t=ThreadReader::Thread.new(...
=> #<ThreadReader::Thread:...

Doh...yeah, brain-died - I was trying to use 'Module' (capital 'M'), rather than 'module'...

Answer 2

Well Modules behave this way as you will be aware.

As I'm sure you're also aware there is a certain danger with regard to understandable and maintainable code in creating classes with the same name as other regularly used classes, so you might want to use a different name even with your changed namespace.