From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2005-07-14T17:13:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [SOLUTION] SerializableProc (#38)

Granted, we cheated, quite a bit at that, but I think the solution we  
came up with is pretty:

require 'r2c_hacks'

class ProcStore # We have to have this because yaml calls allocate on  
Proc
   def initialize(&proc)
     @p = proc.to_ruby
   end

   def call(*args)
     eval(@p).call(*args)
   end
end

code = ProcStore.new { |x| return x+1 }
=> #<ProcStore:0x3db25c @p="proc do |x|\n  return (x + 1)\nend">

The latest release of ZenHacks added Proc.to_ruby among other things.  
Granted, it doesn't preserve the actual closure, just the code, but  
it looks like that is a limitation of the other solutions as well, so  
we aren't crying too much.

Our original solution just patched Proc and added _load/_store on it,  
but it choked on the YAML serialization side of things. Not entirely  
sure why, and we were too tired to care at the time.

To see what we do to implement Proc.to_ruby:

class Proc
   ProcStoreTmp = Class.new unless defined? ProcStoreTmp
   def to_ruby
     ProcStoreTmp.send(:define_method, :myproc, self)
     m = ProcStoreTmp.new.method(:myproc)
     result = m.to_ruby.sub!(/def myproc\(([^\)]+)\)/, 'proc do |\1|')
     return result
   end
end

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