From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2005-10-18T05:30:48+09:00
Subject: Re: declaratively caching results of a method

Brian Buckley schrieb:
> How can one, for example, access
> the cache to see the state of the cache?

See below:

> module Memoize
>    MEMOIZE_VERSION = "1.0.0"
>    def memoize(name)
>       meth = method(name)
>       cache = {}
>       (class << self; self; end).class_eval do
>          define_method(name) do |*args|
>             cache[args] ||= meth.call(*args)
>          end

            define_method("#{name}_cache") do
              cache
            end

>       end
>   end
> end

Untested, but should work.

Regards,
Pit