From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-11-12T11:43:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Can Ruby do this magic... elegantly

On 11/11/06, J2M <james2mccarthy@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to be able to be able to include instance methods of a
> Struct into a class. e.g.
>
> foo = Struct.new(:attribute, :another_attribute)
> bar = foo.new
>
> class Bas
>
>   some_ruby_magic
>
> end
>
> So that I can then do
>
> Bas.attribute="a value"
> Bas.attribute
>
> Kind of like doing module_functions but that doesn't work inside a
> class.

class Bas
  @__struct__ = Struct.new(:attribute, :another_attribute)

  class << self
    def method_missing(sym, *args)
       @__struct__.send(sym, *args) if @__struct__.respond_to?(sym)
    end
  end
end

That should work.

-austin
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