Delegation Without Method_missing

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        With ActiveSupport we get a clean and easy way to implement the delegation pattern:

class QueueManager

  attr_accessor :queue

  # Delegates some methods to the internal queue
  delegate :size, :clear, :to => :queue

  def intialize
    self.queue = []
  end

end

m = QueueManager.new
m.size
# => 0
m.clear
# => []

More info: 
- http://www.simonecarletti.com/blog/2009/12/inside-ruby-on-rails-delegate/
- http://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/module/delegation.rb
    

Tags:
• activesupport
• delegation
• pattern
• Rails