From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-11-13T18:12:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Whats the ruby way of associating metadata with a function

2007/11/13, Keith Chapman <keithgchapman@gmail.com>:
> Hi All,
>
> I've pretty new to ruby and still getting to know how ruby works. I want
> to associate some metadata to a function. I saw a similar post down this
> line but didn't get the real answer.
>
> In javascript I'm used to associating metadata with a function as
> follows.
>
> foo.bar = "foobar";
> function foo(){
> }
>
> Whats the normal ruby practice to do this kind of a thing. Whats the
> ruby way of doing this.

You typically use a class instance variable.  For example:

class Foo
  def self.meta() @method_meta ||= {} end

  def bar() 1 end

  meta[:bar]=567
  puts meta[:bar], meta[:foo]
end

puts Foo.meta[:bar], Foo.meta[:foo]

Kind regards

robert

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