From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2001-11-27T01:42:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26527] delegates and weakref

It seems that a DelegateClass does not properly delegate to a WeakRef:

  require 'delegate'
  require 'weakref'

  class Foo
    def method_missing(*args)
      p args
    end
  end

  f = Foo.new
  f.foo

  w = WeakRef.new(f)
  w.foo

  class Bar < DelegateClass(WeakRef)
    def initialize
      @obj = Foo.new
      super(WeakRef.new(@obj))
    end
  end

  b = Bar.new
  b.foo

This produces:

  [:foo]
  [:foo]
  mm.rb:24: undefined method `foo' for #<Bar:0x4027f300> (NameError)

Anyone know why this is happening?  Any ideas on a workaround (I know I
can use a SimpleDelegate, but that has costs)?

Paul