From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-10-07T22:51:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Event Handling

On 10/7/05, iamscottwalter@gmail.com <iamscottwalter@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am coming from the Java world and was wondering if there ins anything
> in Ruby similar to Java's event processing?  For  example I have a
> particular Object that can fire off an event to all objects that listen
> for that event.  A more real world example would be that I have a
> delete() method that was called and I want to let all interested
> parties know that the delete() method was called.
>
> In the Java space I would setup an event listener.  When the delete()
> method would be called I wouold send an event to all my registered
> listeners.
>
> I hope I was clear enough.

http://phrogz.net/ProgrammingRuby/lib_patterns.html#observer

-austin
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