From: Florian Frank <flori@...>
Date: 2002-10-30T07:41:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamically executed methods in Ruby?

On 2002-10-30 07:05:10 +0900, Mirian Crzig Lennox wrote:
> I want to write a class with a method, say "method_handler" which
> "traps" all calls to undefined methods and executes them somehow.  For
> example:
> 
> 	  class Foo
> 	    def	method_handler(meth, *args)
> 	      # meth is the symbol representing the name of the method
> 	      ... code to determine what happens ...
> 	    end
>           end

Try this instead:

class Foo
	def	method_missing(meth, *args)
	# meth is the symbol representing the name of the method
		... code to determine what happens ...
	end
end

Once again Matz proves to be good in reading programmer' mind. :)

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