From: benny <listen@...>
Date: 2005-08-02T04:21:04+09:00
Subject: Recursive OpenStruct

Dear list,


didn't find anything like that so I thought, I could be useful to somebody:

You'll find a little recursive OpenStruct class below. It allows you to
generate an (pseudo)attribut based hierarchy on the fly. the calling of the
"attribut" is sufficious to generate it (you don't have to set it to a
certain value). 

the object might later go back through this tree. might be useful for
settings as an alternative way to recursive hashes.

regards, benny



require 'ostruct'

class ROpenStruct < OpenStruct
        def method_missing(mid, *args)
                mname = mid.id2name
    len = args.length
    if len == 0
      @table[mname.intern] = ROpenStruct.new
      self.new_ostruct_member(mname)
      @table[mname.intern]
    else
        super
    end
        end
end

test = ROpenStruct.new
test.p = "hello"
test.t.s.p.t.z.y.x = "hi"
test.xyz

p test