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Attic - v0.5

A place to hide private instance variables in your Ruby objects.

Example

    require 'attic'

    class String
      extend Attic
      attic :timestamp
    end

    a = "anything"
    a.timestamp = "1980-11-18"
    a.instance_variables                      # => []
    a.timestamp                               # 1980-11-18

    a.attic_variables                         # => [:timestamp]

    a.attic_variable_set :tags, [:a, :b, :c]
    a.attic_variable_get :tags                # [:a, :b, :c]

    a.attic_variables                         # => [:timestamp, :tags]

Some objects have no metaclasses

Symbol and Fixnum objects do not have metaclasses so instance variables are hidden in the object itself.

Installation

Via Rubygems, one of:

    $ gem install attic

or via download:

Credits

  • Delano (@solutious.com)

License

See: LICENSE.txt

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