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class Object
  unless respond_to?(:send!)
    # Anticipating Ruby 1.9 neutering send
    alias send! send
  end

  # A Ruby-ized realization of the K combinator, courtesy of Mikael Brockman.
  #
  #   def foo
  #     returning values = [] do
  #       values << 'bar'
  #       values << 'baz'
  #     end
  #   end
  #
  #   foo # => ['bar', 'baz']
  #
  #   def foo
  #     returning [] do |values|
  #       values << 'bar'
  #       values << 'baz'
  #     end
  #   end
  #
  #   foo # => ['bar', 'baz']
  #
  def returning(value)
    yield(value)
    value
  end

  # An elegant way to refactor out common options
  # 
  #   with_options :order => 'created_at', :class_name => 'Comment' do |post|
  #     post.has_many :comments, :conditions => ['approved = ?', true], :dependent => :delete_all
  #     post.has_many :unapproved_comments, :conditions => ['approved = ?', false]
  #     post.has_many :all_comments
  #   end
  #
  # Can also be used with an explicit receiver:
  #
  #   map.with_options :controller => "people" do |people|
  #     people.connect "/people",     :action => "index"
  #     people.connect "/people/:id", :action => "show"
  #   end
  #
  def with_options(options)
    yield ActiveSupport::OptionMerger.new(self, options)
  end
  
  # A duck-type assistant method. For example, ActiveSupport extends Date
  # to define an acts_like_date? method, and extends Time to define
  # acts_like_time?. As a result, we can do "x.acts_like?(:time)" and
  # "x.acts_like?(:date)" to do duck-type-safe comparisons, since classes that
  # we want to act like Time simply need to define an acts_like_time? method.
  def acts_like?(duck)
    respond_to? "acts_like_#{duck}?"
  end
end

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21 entries across 21 versions & 4 rubygems

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activesupport-2.0.0 lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
activesupport-2.0.1 lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
activesupport-2.0.2 lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
activesupport-2.0.5 lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
activesupport-2.0.4 lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
radiant-0.6.5.1 vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
radiant-0.6.5 vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
radiant-0.6.7 vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
radiant-0.6.6 vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
radiant-0.6.9 vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
radiant-0.6.8 vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
spree-0.0.9 vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
spree-0.2.0 vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
swivel-0.0.150 vendor/activesupport-2.0.2-/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
swivel-0.0.149 vendor/activesupport-2.0.2-/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
swivel-0.0.157 vendor/activesupport-2.0.2-/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
swivel-0.0.175 vendor/activesupport-2.0.2-/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
swivel-0.0.156 vendor/activesupport-2.0.2-/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
swivel-0.0.152 vendor/activesupport-2.0.2-/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb
swivel-0.0.155 vendor/activesupport-2.0.2-/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb