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OpenDSL provides an open nomenclature for writing domain specific instructions. The idea is inline with the idea of duck-typing. You can allow domain instructions to be given up front free of restriction, then applying them later their correctness plays out as they are utilized.

The library is especailly useful for plugins systems.

Please see HISTORY.rdoc file.

There are a few different ways in which this library can be put to use, but the basic idea for all of them can be demonstrated simply enough.

Foo = OpenDSL.new do
  foo do
    'foo'
  end
end

class Something
  include Foo

  def foobar
    foo + 'bar'
  end
end

OpenDSL.new creates a subclass of Module. Indeed, this library was orginally called OpenModule, but the name was changed to focus on it’s utility, rather than it’s implementation. Since an OpenDSL object is a module you can use it just like any other module.

To install with RubyGems simply open a console and type:

gem install opendsl

Site installation requires Setup.rb (gem install setup), then download the tarball package and type:

tar -xvzf openmodule-1.0.0.tgz
cd opendsl-1.0.0.tgz
sudo setup.rb all

Windows users use ‘ruby setup.rb all’.

Copyright © 2009 Thomas Sawyer

This program is ditributed unser the terms of the FreeBSD license.

See COPYING.rdoc file for details.