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Watchable

A simple event/notification mixin, reluctantly extracted to a gem. This is code I've had floating around for a few years now, but I've also incorporated a few extras from node.js' EventEmitter, jQuery, and Backbone.Events.

Examples

Fixtures

require "watchable"

class Frob
  include Watchable
end

class Callable
  def call *args
    p :called! => args
  end
end

Watching and Firing

Events can have any number of watchers. Each watcher will be called in order, and any args provided when the event is fired will be passed along. Watchers will most commonly be blocks, but any object that responds to call can be used instead.

frob = Frob.new

frob.on :twiddle do |name|
  puts "#{name} twiddled the frob!"
end

frob.on :twiddle do |name|
  puts "(not that there's anything wrong with that)"
end

frob.on :twiddle, Callable.new
frob.fire :twiddle, "John"

Result

John twiddled the frob!
(not that there's anything wrong with that)
{ :called! => ["John"] }

Watching Everything

Want to see every event fired by an object? Register for :all. The first argument will be the name of the fired event.

frob = Frob.new

frob.on :all do |event, culprit|
  p :fired => [event, culprit]
end

frob.fire :foo, "John"

Result

{:fired => [:foo, "John"]}

Watching Every Instance of a Class

To see all events fired by instances of a class, register for events on the class constant. The first argument will be the name of the event, and the second the instance that fired it.

Frob.on :foo do |event, instance, culprit|
  p :fired => [event, instance, culprit]
end

frob = Frob.new
frob.fire :foo, "John"

Result

{:fired => [:foo, #<Frob:0x007f9828e9e608>, "John"]}

Watching Once

Only want to be notified the first time something happens? once is like on, but fickle.

frob = Frob.new

frob.once :twiddle do
  p :twiddled!
end

frob.fire :twiddle
frob.fire :twiddle

Result

:twiddled!

Unwatching

Specific blocks or callable objects can be removed from an event's watchers, or all the event's watchers can be removed.

b    = lambda {}
frob = Frob.new

frob.on :twiddle, &b

frob.off :twiddle, b  # removes the 'b' watcher, same as frob.off :twiddle, &b
frob.off :twiddle     # removes all watchers for the 'twiddle' event

Compatibility

Watchable is actively developed against MRI Ruby 1.8.7 as a least common denominator, but is widely tested against other Ruby versions and implementations. Check the travis-ci page for details.

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