It would be more correct to say that Object includes the Kernel module.
see http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Object.html
Dheeraj Kumar
On Thursday 27 September 2012 at 6:10 AM, John Merlino wrote:
> inheritance chain:
>
> Class -> Module -> Object
>
> Kernel.is_a?(Module) # => true
>
> Kernel is an instance of Module, which in turn inherits from Object.
>
> So how is Kernel an ancestor of Object?
>
> I found it on line 262 of "The Ruby Programming Language":
>
> "The Kernel module is an ancestor of Object."
>
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