From: Pierre-Charles David <pcdavid@...>
Date: 2006-03-31T15:27:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and AOP

On 3/31/06, James Herdman <james.herdman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So erm, yeah aspects are quite cool, certainly worth looking at for a
> > set of problems.  IOC sort of stole their thunder and has negated the
> > press AOP was getting for a while, but now most IOC frameworks use
> > aspects internally.
>
> Pardon my naivity, but what is IOC?

IOC = Inversion Of Control. See Marting Fowler's article for a good
explanation: http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html

There are several implementations in Ruby, Needle for example:
http://needle.rubyforge.org/