From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-09-04T03:53:53+09:00
Subject: Re: How do you manage your own library?  was: RE: cgi redirect

Hi --

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Michael Campbell wrote:

> > In Ruby, you can always add the method you want to CGI dynamically:
> ...
>
> How do you guys manage your own "enhancements" to ruby?  Say you've
> got a number of "pet" definitions, redefinitions, etc. to standard
> ruby library classes; where do you put them?  In separate files that
> you include later, or 1 big one, or something else?

I know I'll sound like a broken record, at least to long-time
ruby-talk residents, if I mention Ruby Behaviors, or
[ruby-talk:14556], or any such thing :-)  So I'll just say that, in the
absence of having really made Behaviors work, and probably for other
reasons, I tend to be pretty scrappy when it comes to this kind of
thing.  For instance, in a recent project I wanted to make use of
Enumerable#map_with_indices, so I rewrote it for the nth time....
Luckily Ruby makes that relatively easy :-)  though it would in theory
be easier if I were more organized about packaging things, even for
private use.


David

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