method_missing magic - emulating Groovy's "it" in Ruby

2 Oct, 2006 Inspired variously by: Symbol#to_proc Nat Pryce's articles on Higher-Order Messaging in Ruby Groovy's implied "it" closure-parameter I've cooked up a shortcut for generating simple blocks, meaning that rather than people.select { |x| x.name.length > 10 } I can write such things as: people.select(&its.name.length > 10) Disclaimer: I think this is more "cool hack" than useful tool; it's

[yamaeda]

あとで読む method_missing magic - emulating Groovy's "it" in Ruby

[fumokmm]

GroovyからRubyへ逆輸入。

[yayugu]

to_procまわりはおもしろいhackがいろいろ開発されてて楽しいなあ