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So, Builder seems to have the most complete implementation of BlankSlate, short of Ruby 1.9's BasicObject. The problem is, this is part of Builder, and still inside the Builder gem. | ||
BlankSlate | ||
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It's especially frustrating, because the Builder source (lib/builder/blankslate.rb) seems to acknowledge that there should be a separate gem. But the only reference I can find refers to onestepback.org's gem repository, which isn't working. | ||
BlankSlate provides an abstract base class with no predefined | ||
methods (except for <tt>\_\_send__</tt> and <tt>\_\_id__</tt>). | ||
BlankSlate is useful as a base class when writing classes that | ||
depend upon <tt>method_missing</tt> (e.g. dynamic proxies). | ||
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So I built my own. I'll try to keep it up to date with Builder. The first three parts of the version number are the Builder version; the last part is my revision. | ||
Copyright 2004, 2006 by Jim Weirich (jim@weirichhouse.org). | ||
All rights reserved. | ||
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Extracted from Builder because, for no conceivable reason, | ||
blankslate isn't in its own gem. Gemified by David Masover, | ||
moved to gemcutter by Jack Danger Canty (gemcutter@6brand.com | ||
if you'd like to own this gem). | ||
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Explanation on extraction from David Masover: | ||
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So, Builder seems to have the most complete implementation of | ||
BlankSlate, short of Ruby 1.9's BasicObject. The problem is, | ||
this is part of Builder, and still inside the Builder gem. | ||
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It's especially frustrating, because the Builder source | ||
(lib/builder/blankslate.rb) seems to acknowledge that there | ||
should be a separate gem. But the only reference I can find | ||
refers to onestepback.org's gem repository, which isn't working. | ||
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So I built my own. I'll try to keep it up to date with Builder. | ||
The first three parts of the version number are | ||
the Builder version; the last part is my revision. |
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