From: Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-11-29T01:54:47+09:00
Subject: Re: AOP in Ruby ...

Ed Howland wrote:
> On 11/28/05, Mark Collins-Cope <markcollinscope@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hi  there,
>>
>>I was wondering if there is any support (in the form of frameworks or
>>whatever) for AOP in Ruby?
> 
> 
> There is Cut, as defined in RCR 321 http://www.rcrchive.net/rcr/show/321%22
> 
> I've tried this out and it seems to work fairly well in my limited
> exposure. Cuts are
> transparent subclasses. While the technique in Christian'a reply
> works, Cut is more broad based. You can reuse aspects by enclosing
> them in modules, and apply the Cut class across ObjectSpace to have
> system-wide aspects.
> 
> Ed
> 
> 
>>Ciao,
>>Mark.

I think I prefer the Sydney approach to AOP, which uses Behaviors:

http://hoshi.fallingsnow.net/svn/sydney/trunk/lib/behavior/aop.rb

Regards,

Dan