From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-03-24T23:14:29+09:00
Subject: Re: How to avoid duplicate object creations?


> "Stig Sandbeck Mathisen" <ssm@fnord.no> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:90lekrj4kn4.fsf@talisker.nsc.no...
> >
> > I have a program that will create a lot of objects, mainly of type
> > SomeDocumentation::Host and SomeDocumentation::Role.
> >
> > Since the Role objects typically create a lot of Host objects, and the
> > other way around, I tried to be clever, and look up objects that already
> > exists with the same value of "name", since the initialize reads a bit
> > from disk.

<snip>

check out

http://www.codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/multiton/

a 'multiton' is a 'singleton' based on the args passed to the ctor.

it may help you.

-a
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