Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!talisker.lacave.net!lacave.net!not-for-mail From: 7stud -- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby Subject: Re: What do you do when you need to attach data to an object instance? Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:50:51 -0500 Organization: Service de news de lacave.net Lines: 36 Message-ID: <4538531e35c3965ef6d57ef9d76e5d88@ruby-forum.com> References: <6fce5b6386258c51794d0b55b63e1ed6@ruby-forum.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bristol.highgroove.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: talisker.lacave.net 1302828667 12664 65.111.164.187 (15 Apr 2011 00:51:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@lacave.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:51:07 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Received-From: This message has been automatically forwarded from the ruby-talk mailing list by a gateway at comp.lang.ruby. If it is SPAM, it did not originate at comp.lang.ruby. Please report the original sender, and not us. Thanks! For more details about this gateway, please visit: http://blog.grayproductions.net/categories/the_gateway X-Mail-Count: 381590 X-Ml-Name: ruby-talk X-Rubymirror: Yes X-Ruby-Talk: <4538531e35c3965ef6d57ef9d76e5d88@ruby-forum.com> Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.ruby:2900 Aaron D. Gifford wrote in post #992887: > > Now another question. I noticed that if I don't include the > send(:public) bit up there, that the send(:attr_accessor) message > delivered to the anonymous module ends up creating private accessor > methods, not public. > > I find that puzzling: > Me too: module Mod attr_accessor :data def do_stuff end end p Mod.public_instance_methods.grep(/^d/) --output:-- [:data, :data=, :do_stuff] Test = Module.new Test.send(:attr_accessor, :data) Test.send(:define_method, :do_stuff, Proc.new {puts 'hi'}) p Test.public_instance_methods.grep(/^d/) p Test.private_instance_methods.grep(/^d/) --output:-- -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.