From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T03:48:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamically added methods

On 8/11/05, Yann Klis <strass@strasslab.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm pretty new to ruby so I will ask some dumb questions, sorry if it's
> not the right place to ask :)
> 
> I'd like to add some methods dynamically to one of my object.
> I understand that with "method_missing" I can "emulate" this behaviour.
> 
> However, imagine I have an hash table. The key would be the attributes
> of my object, and the keys their value. How could I add dynamically
> accessors for those attributes/keys ?

Use OpenStruct.

  require 'ostruct'
  os = OpenStruct.new
  os.foo = "hello"
  os.bar = "world"
  puts "#{os.foo}, #{os.bar}"

-austin
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