As a programmer, you need to write Ruby classes but for doing so it is highly important to know the exact differences between the two methods of writing this, respectively Ruby class methods and the instance methods.
If you have programmed with Ruby, you should have already known that classes are objects as well and naturally the methods that are called as the class methods only refer to the objects defining these classes.
By a Class Method, we refer to a particular piece of functionality belonging to the respective class while this functionality remains free from any single and specific instance.
With this method, we actually use the simple method of finding to portray the entire process of retrieving a group of objects out of the database.
The programmer only writes using Class Methods when a particular functionality the programmer is writing for just does not belong to a specific instance of the class.
For ROR developers of today’s web who are using Ruby as a dependable language to create and deploy objects, the subtle difference between the class method and instance method seems important.