[Rails] How is the Kernel module an ancestor of Object?

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. -- You

Re: [Rails] How is the Kernel module an ancestor of Object?

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