From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2007-08-24T12:30:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Aquarium v0.1.0 - An AOP Toolkit for Ruby

On 8/24/07, Dean Wampler <deanwampler@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just released the first version of a new Aspect-Oriented Programming
> toolkit for Ruby called "Aquarium", available at
>     http://aquarium.rubyforge.org.
>
> I blogged about the goals of the project here:
>
> http://blog.aspectprogramming.com/articles/2007/08/23/announcement-aquarium-v0-1-0-an-aspect-oriented-programming-toolkit-for-ruby
>
> Briefly, the goals are
>
>     * Create a powerful pointcut language, the most important part of an AOP
> toolkit.
>     * Provide Robust support for concurrent advice at the same join point..
>     * Provide runtime addition and removal of aspects.
>     * Provide a test bed for implementation ideas for DSL's.
>
> There is extensive documentation at the Aquarium site. Please give it a try
> and let me know what you think!

Had a glance, since i really miss real AOP in ruby, looks promising
and i'll try it in depth later, one thing i found though (unrelated) -
there is no "gem upgrade", it's "gem update" on
http://aquarium.rubyforge.org/upgrade.html

^ manveru