mbleigh / mash

= Mash (Mocking Hash)

http://github.com/mbleigh/mash

== DESCRIPTION:

Mash is an extended Hash that gives simple pseudo-object functionality
that can be built from hashes and easily extended. It is designed to
be used in RESTful API libraries to provide easy object-like access 
to JSON and XML parsed hashes.

== SYNOPSIS:
  
  mash = Mash.new
  mash.name? # => false
  mash.name # => nil
  mash.name = "My Mash"
  mash.name # => "My Mash"
  mash.name? # => true
  mash.inspect # => <Mash name="My Mash">
  
  mash = Mash.new
  # use bang methods for multi-level assignment
  mash.author!.name = "Michael Bleigh"
  mash.author # => <Mash name="Michael Bleigh">

== INSTALL:

Gem:

Mash is hosted on the GitHub gem repository, so if you haven't already:

  gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/  
  sudo gem install mbleigh-mash
  
Git:

  git clone git://github.com/mbleigh/mash.git
  
== RESOURCES

If you encounter any problems or have ideas for new features 
please report them at the Lighthouse project for Mash: 

http://mbleigh.lighthouseapp.com/projects/10112-mash

== LICENSE:

Copyright (c) 2008 Michael Bleigh (http://mbleigh.com/) 
and Intridea Inc. (http://intridea.com/), released under the MIT license

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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