From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2007-07-25T04:34:10+09:00
Subject: Re: attributes ala java annotations or .Net attributes?

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007, Kyle Schmitt wrote:
> Does ruby have attributes ala java annotations or .Net attributes?
> I've never seen them in use, hence my wondering.
> Right now I've got a pretty big test-suite written in ruby & watir,
> and I've got alot of old code in it.  It would be nice if I just was
> able to put in something like an [obsolete]/<obsolete> tag, and have
> it just ignored, or have a warning popup automatically to say "Your'e
> using an obsolete method, get with it!", or to bip me on the head...

It's not exactly what you're looking for, but there's a library called
'deprecated' that can be used to achieve that sort of result:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/deprecated/

Ben