From: Max Russell <thedossone@...>
Date: 2006-11-24T19:00:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Metaprogammatically define methods.

Suraj Kurapati wrote:
> Suraj Kurapati wrote:
>> class Foo
>>   File.open('readme.txt').readlines.each do |entry|
> 
> Well it turns out that the above line can be simplified to:
> 
>    File.open('readme.txt').each_line do |entry|
> 
> or even to:
> 
>    IO.foreach('readme.txt') do |entry|
> 
> Personally, I prefer each_line because IO.foreach sounds like "for each 
> IO object in ..." instead of "for each line in ...".
> 
>>     define_method "test_#{entry}".to_sym do
>>       puts "testing #{entry}"
>>     end
>>   end
>> end
>> 
>> Foo.new.test_whatever

Got a bit of help on this one and the solution I'm now going with is:

File.open('readme.txt').each_line do |entry|
    self.send(:define_method, entry.strip.to_sym){ puts "testing 
#{entry}" }
    #self.send(:public, entry.strip.to_sym )
   end
end


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