class SimpleDelegator
A concrete implementation of Delegator, this class provides the means to delegate all supported method calls to the object passed into the constructor and even to change the object being delegated to at a later time with #__setobj__.
Here's a simple example that takes advantage of the fact that SimpleDelegator's delegation object can be changed at any time.
class Stats def initialize @source = SimpleDelegator.new([]) end def stats(records) @source.__setobj__(records) "Elements: #{@source.size}\n" + " Non-Nil: #{@source.compact.size}\n" + " Unique: #{@source.uniq.size}\n" end end s = Stats.new puts s.stats(%w{James Edward Gray II}) puts puts s.stats([1, 2, 3, nil, 4, 5, 1, 2])
Prints:
Elements: 4 Non-Nil: 4 Unique: 4 Elements: 8 Non-Nil: 7 Unique: 6
Public Instance Methods
__getobj__()
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Returns the current object method calls are being delegated to.
# File lib/delegate.rb, line 267 def __getobj__ @delegate_sd_obj end
__setobj__(obj)
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Changes the delegate object to obj.
It's important to note that this does not cause SimpleDelegator's methods to change. Because of this, you probably only want to change delegation to objects of the same type as the original delegate.
Here's an example of changing the delegation object.
names = SimpleDelegator.new(%w{James Edward Gray II}) puts names[1] # => Edward names.__setobj__(%w{Gavin Sinclair}) puts names[1] # => Sinclair
# File lib/delegate.rb, line 285 def __setobj__(obj) raise ArgumentError, "cannot delegate to self" if self.equal?(obj) @delegate_sd_obj = obj end