From: "Stathy G. Touloumis" <stathy.touloumis@...>
Date: 2002-10-01T23:20:42+09:00
Subject: Re: OO Perl -> Ruby


>Now, in Perl, the $manager that gets returned by the Cudd_Init function
>gets blessed and becomes the reference to the object - the $manager
>reference can respond to a certain set of method calls on it's own.
>Blesssing $manager into the Cudd package also adds some additional
>methods that are defined in the Cudd package.  In Ruby, calling:
>CuddClass.new will call CuddClass' initialize and return a reference to an
>instance of CuddClass which is different from what's happening in Perl. So
>the question is, what's the best way to translate this into Ruby?  I'm
>thinking that I could use method_missing to redirect unknown (or at
>least of unknown to CuddClass, but known to @manager) method calls to the
>@manager reference.

Sounds like you want to use the delegate design pattern built into 
Ruby.  Examples are given in the Ruby book.