Module Forwardable
In: lib/forwardable.rb

The Forwardable module provides delegation of specified methods to a designated object, using the methods def_delegator and def_delegators.

For example, say you have a class RecordCollection which contains an array @records. You could provide the lookup method record_number(), which simply calls #[] on the @records array, like this:

  class RecordCollection
    extend Forwardable
    def_delegator :@records, :[], :record_number
  end

Further, if you wish to provide the methods size, #<<, and map, all of which delegate to @records, this is how you can do it:

  class RecordCollection
    # extend Forwardable, but we did that above
    def_delegators :@records, :size, :<<, :map
  end

Also see the example at forwardable.rb.

Methods

Attributes

debug  [RW]  force Forwardable to show up in stack backtraces of delegated methods

Public Instance methods

def_delegator(accessor, method, ali = method)
def_delegators(accessor, *methods)

Defines a method method which delegates to obj (i.e. it calls the method of the same name in obj). If new_name is provided, it is used as the name for the delegate method.

See the examples at Forwardable and forwardable.rb.

[Source]

     # File lib/forwardable.rb, line 143
143:   def def_instance_delegator(accessor, method, ali = method)
144:     accessor = accessor.id2name if accessor.kind_of?(Integer)
145:     method = method.id2name if method.kind_of?(Integer)
146:     ali = ali.id2name if ali.kind_of?(Integer)
147: 
148:     module_eval("def \#{ali}(*args, &block)\nbegin\n\#{accessor}.__send__(:\#{method}, *args, &block)\nrescue Exception\n$@.delete_if{|s| /^\\\\(__FORWARDABLE__\\\\):/ =~ s} unless Forwardable::debug\nKernel::raise\nend\nend\n", "(__FORWARDABLE__)", 1)
149:   end

Shortcut for defining multiple delegator methods, but with no provision for using a different name. The following two code samples have the same effect:

  def_delegators :@records, :size, :<<, :map

  def_delegator :@records, :size
  def_delegator :@records, :<<
  def_delegator :@records, :map

See the examples at Forwardable and forwardable.rb.

[Source]

     # File lib/forwardable.rb, line 130
130:   def def_instance_delegators(accessor, *methods)
131:     for method in methods
132:       def_instance_delegator(accessor, method)
133:     end
134:   end

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