IncludeAny

Allows including any object, not just modules. Of course, this is just in theory—see “Bugs & Caveats” below.

Simply run

$ gem install include_any

or include it in your Gemfile as usual.

The method of interest here is IncludeAny#include_any. By default this is not mixed-in anywhere, but doing

require 'include_any/core_ext'

will include IncludeAny into Class and Module.

Then we can get going:

class C
  def foo
    'bar!'
  end
end

class D
  include_any C
end

D.ancestors.include? C
#=> true

D.new.foo
#=> "bar!"

Well would you look at that! We’ve included a Class. Magical!

Use at your own risk, kids. I would strongly recommend against using this in production code; it modifies the very core of Ruby's core, and if something goes wrong it will do so spectacuarly.

• Currently seg faults if passed anything but a Class or Module. It should accept (most) any object.
• Will probably fail to install or seg fault under anything but MRI 1.9.3.

See the issues for more.

Patches and improvements welcome. Especially if they fix a seg fault. Note that there is no intention to support Ruby 1.8.

1. Fork it
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 new Pull Request

© 2012 J. Andrew Marshall. All rights reserved. See the LICENSE file for more information.