propertybuilder

= propertybuilder

• http://propertybuilder.rubyforge.org

== DESCRIPTION:

Property Builder is a small library for building chains of symbols that will silently fail on nil. This is meant as an alternative to Object#andand and the ilk. This is mostly a theoretical approach, meant to encourage discussion.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

Two main components:

Object#is to build a PropertyBuilder chain

Object#build_on to build the PropertyBuilder on the object and return the specified property

== SYNOPSIS:  class TestClass attr_accessor :attachment end

class TestAttachment def a_method(an_argument="argument") an_argument end end

@test = TestClass.new @test.attachment = TestAttachment.new

same as @test.attachment.a_method, but will fail silently if @test.attachment is nil

@test.build_on(is(:attachment, :a_method))

same as @test.attachment.a_method("test_argument")

@test.build_on(is(:attachment, [:a_method, "test_argument"]))

== REQUIREMENTS:

ActiveSupport

== INSTALL:

gem install propertybuilder

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

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