From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-11-24T21:13:18+09:00
Subject: Re: How to avoid inheriting Object?

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 12:54 am, Jim Weirich wrote:
| On Tuesday 23 November 2004 10:18 pm, Austin Ziegler wrote:
| > On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:29:09 +0900, itsme213 <itsme213@hotmail.com> wrote:
| > > How do I create a class that does not inherit from Object?
| >
| > You can't. All objects inherit from Object.
| >
| > If, however, you want a bare class (e.g., nothing except __send__ and
| > __id__), then there are ways to do that. Look at the evilruby project
| > and I think that Jim Weirich has said stuff about this on his
| > onestepback blog.
|
| Builder 1.2.2 is available as a gem and includes the most recent version of
| BlankSlate.  Although conceptually simple, it turns out there are a few
| gotchas when writing a good BlankSlate object.  The version in builder is
| addresses all the issues I am aware of.
|
| The blog entry describing the initial BlankSlate is at
| http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/BlankSlate.rdoc.

Nice work Jim. Builder looks quite useful and might prove useful to those 
interested in the YAML vs. Marshalling thread --but then how would they 
really guess that? 

Might I suggest changing the name to something a little more descriptive 
--like XMLBuilder. Just Builder is rather general and undescriptive. With a 
more specific name I think you'll pick-up more hits. The GEM description BTW 
didn't improve matters much either.

builder (1.2.2)
    Builders for MarkUp.

If it wasn't for this BlankSlate post, I would never have known what this was 
for.

T.