AttachFunction

AttachFunction defines new methods that are partial applications of a target function where the first argument to the target function gets fixed to self.

The name of the newly defined method will be the basename of the target function (the module path gets stripped) or a user-specified name. The receiver of relatively specified parameter functions will be the current module, if a user-specified name is given and the user-specified name is not the same as the basename of the target function, or the enclosing module, if no-user specified name is provided or if the user-specified name is the same as the basename of the parameter.

require 'attach_function'

module Math

  #This will contain the method versions of the functions defined in the Math module
  module MethodVersions
    #Get the attach_function macro
    extend AttachFunction
    #Apply it to all methods of the Math module that aren't Object methods
    (Math.methods - Object.methods).each do |m|
      puts "Attaching #{m}"
      attach_function m
    end
  end
end

#Now we include the Math::MethodVersions in Numeric
Numeric.include(Math::MethodVersions)
#And now we can do this:
p "3.14.sin = #{3.14.sin}"
p "10.log  = #{10.log10}"
p "4.sqrt  = #{4.sqrt}"

#The functionality that has been added to Numeric in this way is contained in the Math::MethodVersions mixin.
#I consider this much nicer than rudely monkepatching methods right onto a core class.
#This way, library users can see (in pry, for example, or via introspection) where a certain added method came from, and possibly filter it out.
#(Ruby doesn't currently support unmixing).

See the specs and the example folder for more examples.

This gem uses a slightly modified version of the SemVer specification, namely:

    spec.version = "BREAKING.PATCHES.NONBREAKING"

You can use this versioning with your dependency tools, only you have a somewhat stronger guarantees that your code won't break if you limit yourself to the third number, but you need to allow second level updates in order to get (security and other) patches.

Since the above-described type of versioning doesn't tell you anything about the functional state of the gem (you can go from a "hello world" to a full blown operating system without making a breaking change, as long as your operating system prints "hello world" to the screen) (SemVer, when used correctly, doesn't tell anything about the functional state of a software package either) A second human-friendly version number can be found in spec.metadata[:human_version].

The magnitude of this version number shall be made to correspond to actual functional changes in the software. If I've worked a lot on the package, I'll make it move a lot, but unless I've made breaking changes, I'll stick to only moving the third number in the spec.version version. This number is for you. If you see it increase a lot, it probably means much more new goodies, but is less strictly defined then the version number for the machine. (I reserve the right to later change the way I change this number).

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'attach_function'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install attach_function

User it in any way you like.

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/i_rewriter/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request