From: Greg Millam <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2006-02-21T00:41:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [SOLUTION] metakoans.rb (#67)

As with everyone, it seems, some more twiddling and playing with this 
yielded me a better, faster, and smaller solution.

This also beats my prior solution in that a? returns only true or false, 
and variables are kept with the object rather than in a hash with the 
object as a key. The reader methods also won't take an argument now. 
(They did before.)

9 lines with a little golfing: (8 if you ditch the line for multiple 
definitions, which isn't needed for passing the koans).

It's pretty much the same as most of the other solutions out there, now.

def attribute(arg,*rest,&b)
   attribute(*rest,&b) if rest.any? # Allow multiple definitions.
   n    = (arg.is_a?(Hash) ? arg.keys[0] : arg).to_s
   b  ||= lambda { arg.is_a?(Hash) ? arg[n] :  nil  }
   attr_writer n
   define_method(n) { instance_variables.include?('@'+n) ? \
       instance_variable_get('@'+n) : instance_eval(&b) }
   define_method(n+'?') { ! [nil,false].include?(send(n)) }
end

Blast it, Ara, how do I stop myself from doing more and more tweaking? ;)

- Greg