This is a backward incompatible fork of https://github.com/djberg96/interface It provides interfaces, traits and runtime interface checks in Ruby

gem install rubycube OR gem rubycube in your Gemfile

http://web.archive.org/web/20061209142330/http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Papers/Scha02bTraits.pdf

See this annotated example

Since runtime checks are meant to be invoked for every invocation of a method, there is a runtime overhead associated which may not be desirable in production. Hence these checks are guarded by an environment variable RUBY_CUBE_TYPECHECK. Unless this variable is set to 1, the runtime checks are not executed

On a Macbook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 machine, enabling runtime checks costs about 1 second for every million calls. YMMV. It is advisable to benchmark for your code to determine if the overhead is acceptable in your enviroment.

A discussion on IRC with Mauricio Fernandez got us talking about traits. During that discussion I remembered a blog entry by David Naseby. I revisited his blog entry and took a closer look:

http://ruby-naseby.blogspot.com/2008/11/traits-in-ruby.html

Keep in mind that I also happened to be thinking about Java at the moment because of a recent job switch that involved coding in Java. I was also trying to figure out what the purpose of interfaces were.

As I read the first page of David Naseby's article I realized that, whether intended or not, he had implemented a rudimentary form of interfaces for Ruby. When I discovered this, I talked about it some more with Mauricio and he and I (mostly him) fleshed out the rest of the module, including some syntax improvements. The result is syntax and functionality that is nearly identical to Java.

I should note that, although I am listed as the author, this was mostly the combined work of David Naseby and Mauricio Fernandez. I just happened to be the guy that put it all together.

This module was largely inspired and somewhat copied from a post by David Naseby (see URL above). It was subsequently modified almost entirely by Mauricio Fernandez through a series of discussions on IRC.

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