Morph allows you to emerge class definitions via calling assignment methods.
Mix with Hpricot for screen scrapping fun.

Here's example code showing Morph playing with Hpricot:

  require 'hpricot'; require 'open-uri'; require 'morph'

  class Hubbit
    include Morph  # allows class to morph

    def initialize name
      doc = Hpricot open("http://github.com/#{name}")

      (doc/'label').collect do |node|
        label = node.inner_text
        value = node.next_sibling.inner_text.strip

        morph(label, value) # morph magic happening here!
      end
    end
  end

  def Hubbit name; Hubbit.new name; end


The model emerges from the data. Let's start by looking up 'why':

  why = Hubbit 'why'

What new methods do we have?

  Hubbit.morph_methods # => ["email", "email=", "name", "name="]

Ah-ha, so we have a name attribute now:

  why.name #=> "why the lucky stiff"


Let's add some of why's projects:

  why.projects = %w[shoes hacketyhack camping hoodwinkd hpricot markaby
                    mousehole parkplace poignant sandbox]

That why's a productive fellow! Note new accessor methods have been added:

  Hubbit.morph_methods # => ["email", "email=", "name", "name=",
                             "projects", "projects="]


Let's do some more morphing:

  dhh = Hubbit 'dhh'

Do we have more methods now?

  Hubbit.morph_methods # => ["blog", "blog=", "company", "company=",
                             "email", "email=", "location", "location="
                             "name", "name=", "projects", "projects="]

So, a new company method has appeared:

  dhh.company #=> "37signals"


Time to print the nascent attribute definitions:

  puts Hubbit.print_morph_methods

  # attr_accessor :name
  # attr_accessor :email
  # attr_accessor :blog
  # attr_accessor :company
  # attr_accessor :location
  # attr_accessor :projects


See examples/ directory for more example code.
See LICENSE for the terms of this software.

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