Subclassing Module For Fun and Profit
You think you’ve done everything with Ruby? How about subclassing Module? It’s an interesting technique that I’ve been experimenting with lately. One of the downsides of using modules in Ruby is that a module doesn’t have a state. When you mix it into another class you’re basically copying methods from one place to another. What if extending an object with new methods requires a state? Where would you put that state?...