Please do not confuse "use" with "using". This library was written before refinements existed in Ruby, and it is largely obviated by that feature now. Consequently I have archived this repository as I don't see a compelling case for its usage any longer.

The 'use' library allows you to selectively mixin methods from a given module and alias them on the fly if desired.

structured_warnings 0.3.0 or later

gem install use

require 'use'
 
module Foo
  def bar
    puts "hello"
  end
  def baz
    puts "world"
  end
end

module Test
  def bar
    puts "goodbye"
  end
  def blah
    puts "new york"
  end
end

class Zap
  use Foo, :bar
  use Test, :blah
end

z = Zap.new

z.bar  # => "hello"
z.blah # => "new york"
z.baz  # => NoMethodError
 
# Using the new keywords
class MyKlass
  use Foo, :alias => {:bar => :test}
end
 
m = MyKlass.new
m.test # => "hello"
m.bar  # => NoMethodError

USE_VERSION

The version of this library. This is a string.

In $VERBOSE mode this library will issue a MethodRedefinedWarning if you shadow an existing method. See the documentation for structured_warnings for more details.

Thanks go to Ara Howard for providing the original solution and to Mauricio Fernandez, whose blog I plagiarized (and with whom I communicated) in order to implement fine-grained mixins.

Some versions of Ruby 1.9.x may emit a warning in verbose mode. This is a bug in Ruby 1.9.x and can be ignored. I seriously hope you aren't using Ruby 1.9 at this point.

mixology at https://github.com/dan-manges/mixology

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