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April 21, 2016 by Daniel P. Clark

Use Ruby’s Refinements Anywhere With An Anonymous Class

For a long time I’ve been looking for a way to use Ruby’s refinements without building a class & method setup and then instantiating an instance of the class just to use it. And now I’ve finally found a solution. module Moo refine Fixnum do def to_s “moo” end end end # begin/end blocks allow…

June 21, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Ruby Refinements – Not quite ready for production

I recently looked for a method on Array for a boolean response on its uniqueness. As Ruby currently doesn’t have one I figured it’s easy enough to write one. Now Ruby’s refinements are fairly new and a nice feature to have around. So I decided to write a benchmark for different ways to test the…

January 20, 2015 by Daniel P. Clark

Refinements over Monkey-patching

Monkey patching is rather straight forward. You take an existing object and you apply your own duct tape, glue, nuts and bolts, or even chewing gum. Or if it’s bad you hit it with a hammer. No, but more seriously, it’s when you modify something existing from outside it’s original project code. For example you…