# Facets' BasicObject is an implementation of Jim Weirich's BlankSlate.
#
# BlankSlate
# Copyright 2004 by Jim Weirich (jim@weirichhouse.org).
# All rights reserved.
#
# Since Ruby 1.9 has a BasicObject class this will of course be
# deprecated as 1.9 goes mainstream.
unless defined? BasicObject # just in case it already exists!
# BasicObject provides an abstract base class with no predefined
# methods (except for \_\_send__ and \_\_id__).
# BlankSlate is useful as a base class when writing classes that
# depend upon method_missing (e.g. dynamic proxies).
class BasicObject
class << self
# Hide the method named +name+ in the BlankSlate class. Don't
# hide +instance_eval+ or any method beginning with "__".
#
# According to 1.9.1 it should have only these methods:
#
# * #__send__
# * #instance_eval
# * #instance_exec
# * #equal?
# * #==
# * #!
# * #!=
# * respond_to?
#
# Seems to me it should have #__id__ too.
def hide(name)
undef_method name if
instance_methods.include?(name.to_s) and
name !~ /^(__|respond_to\?|instance_eval$|instance_exec$|equal\?$|\=\=$)/
end
end
instance_methods.each { |m| hide(m) }
end
# Since Ruby is very dynamic, methods added to the ancestors of
# BlankSlate after BlankSlate is defined will show up in the
# list of available BlankSlate methods. We handle this by defining a
# hook in the Object and Kernel classes that will hide any defined
module Kernel #:nodoc:
class << self
alias_method :blank_slate_method_added, :method_added
# Detect method additions to Kernel and remove them in the
# BlankSlate class.
def method_added(name)
blank_slate_method_added(name)
return if self != Kernel
BasicObject.hide(name)
end
end
end
class Object #:nodoc:
class << self
alias_method :blank_slate_method_added, :method_added
# Detect method additions to Object and remove them in the
# BlankSlate class.
def method_added(name)
blank_slate_method_added(name)
return if self != Object
BasicObject.hide(name)
end
end
end
end