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Michael J. Cohen on #115 Model Caching (revised) 2013-05-14 06:22:06

I was looking for a good way to explain it, and found this. :)

def self.foo creates a class method.

"Class methods are methods that are called on a class and instance methods are methods that are called on an instance of a class."

via http://www.railstips.org/blog/archives/2009/05/11/class-and-instance-methods-in-ruby/