programming-examples/ruby/Patterns/singleton.rb

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# The singleton pattern is used to ensure that there is only one instance of a
# class and provides global access to that instance. This pattern is useful when
# you want one instance of a class and many different objects need to access it,
# rather than pass the object around, we can make the object global.
class Singleton
def self.new
@instance ||= super
end
end
# Other example
require 'singleton'
class OtherSingleton
include Singleton
# OtherSingleton.new is not allowed
end
# Usage
s1 = Singleton.new
s2 = OtherSingleton.instance