Tuesday, April 07, 2015

SuperModule v1.1.0 is the New Sherif in Town!

After posting an article on AirPair.com about SuperModule v1.0.0 and getting quite a bit of feedback on it in the form of article reviews and reddit posts, I decided to make a new revision with quite a number of improvements, which was released yesterday as SuperModule v1.1.0:

What's New in v1.1.0?

  • Brand new self-friendly algorithm that ensures true mixing of super module singleton methods into the including base class or module, thus always returning the actual base class or module self when invoking a super module inherited singleton method (thanks to Banister for reporting previous limitation on Reddit and providing suggestions)
  • New included_super_modules inherited singleton method that provides developer with a list of all included super modules similar to the Ruby included_modules method.
  • No more use for method_missing (Thanks to Marc-AndrĂ© Lafortune, a Ruby language contributor, for bringing up as a previous limitation in AirPair article reviews)
  • New dependency on Banister's method_source library to have the self-friendly algorithm eval inherited class method sources into the including base class or module.
  • Refactorings, including break-up of the original SuperModule into 3 modules in separate files
  • More RSpec test coverage, including additional method definition scenarios, such as when adding dynamically via class_eval and define_method
Cheers...