From: wys@... (Clemens Wyss)
Date: 2001-03-06T00:10:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12025] Re: hooking/wrapping all of a classes methods

David Alan Black <dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote in
<Pine.LNX.4.21.0103050929420.5680-100000@candle.superlink.net>: 

>Hello --
>
>What I mean is:
>
>Let's say I write an IO-layer class with a bunch of methods that do
>something with files.  I want every method to lock and unlock the file
>(or at least check that it is locked, or whatever).  I don't feel like
>having to remember to write that into every method.
>
"synchronization"...sound like yet another typical AOP aspect ;-)

If we do not have AspectRb (yet), how about writing a special
SynchronizingDelgator (could be a subclass of the Delegator) class? 

I didn't look at the Delegator class so far, but I supsect it is making
use of the method_mssing function. 

Regards 
Clemens