From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2009-11-15T01:27:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Naming conventions -- was: Re: DRYing a Regex

On Nov 14, 2009, at 12:23 AM, Bill Kelly wrote:

> (Note: In this case, it appears Og _always_ handles the
> request via method_missing.  But I've seen other code
> in Og (or maybe Nitro) that did *define* the method when
> it was first called, such that on subsequent invocations
> the method would now already be existing.)

ActiveRecord from Rails works this way.  If you would like to see the code it starts around line 1830 of this file:

http://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/lib/active_record/base.rb

> I seem to recall mention awhile back on ruby-talk of
> a gem or module that integrated `ri` into `irb`, such
> that one could pull up the documentation from within
> irb.  (I don't have any links for that, sorry.)

Here's what I have in my .irbrc file:

  def ri(*names)
    system(%{ri #{names.join(" ")}})
  end

James Edward Gray II