From: Jean Helou <jean.helou@...>
Date: 2006-10-02T22:32:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating dynamically named singleton methods. Syntax question.

class MyThing; end
f=MyThing.new
f.instance_eval do
  class << self
    define_method :test {puts "test"}
  end
end

jean

On 10/2/06, Martin Coxall <pseudo.meta@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/2/06, Luke Stark <Luke.Stark@mathworks.com> wrote:
> >
> > You may create singleton methods like so:
> >
> > foo = MyThing.new
> >
> > def foo.do_stuff
> >   "code"
> > end
> >
> > But I cannot seem to grock the syntax that would allow me to name the
> > method from a variable. Such as:
> >
> > foo = MyThing.new
> > bar = "do_stuff"
> > def foo.%{#{bar}} #This is totally wrong I think.
> >   "code"
> > end
> >
> > Any suggestions? I'm starting to get a spinning head. :)
> >
> > To be clear, I want to create a singleton method on the instance of
> > MyThing, not add the method to the MyThing class.
> >
> > This is mentioned here:
> >
> > http://www.rubyist.net/~slagell/ruby/singletonmethods.html
> >
> > but I'd like to do it dynamically.
> >
>
> Something like this:
>
> obj.instance_eval do
>    define method(:methodName) do |*args|
>       # some shit here
>    end
> end
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin
>
>