lib/hpricot/blankslate.rb
#!/usr/bin/env ruby #-- # Copyright 2004 by Jim Weirich (jim@weirichhouse.org). # All rights reserved. # Permission is granted for use, copying, modification, distribution, # and distribution of modified versions of this work as long as the # above copyright notice is included. #++ module Hpricot # BlankSlate provides an abstract base class with no predefined # methods (except for <tt>\_\_send__</tt> and <tt>\_\_id__</tt>). # BlankSlate is useful as a base class when writing classes that # depend upon <tt>method_missing</tt> (e.g. dynamic proxies). class BlankSlate class << self # Hide the method named +name+ in the BlankSlate class. Don't # hide +instance_eval+ or any method beginning with "__". def hide(name) undef_method name if instance_methods.include?(name.to_s) and name !~ /^(__|instance_eval)/ end end instance_methods.each { |m| hide(m) } end end # Since Ruby is very dynamic, methods added to the ancestors of # BlankSlate <em>after BlankSlate is defined</em> will show up in the # list of available BlankSlate methods. We handle this by defining a # hook in the Object and Kernel classes that will hide any defined module Kernel class << self alias_method :hpricot_slate_method_added, :method_added # Detect method additions to Kernel and remove them in the # BlankSlate class. def method_added(name) hpricot_slate_method_added(name) return if self != Kernel Hpricot::BlankSlate.hide(name) end end end class Object class << self alias_method :hpricot_slate_method_added, :method_added # Detect method additions to Object and remove them in the # BlankSlate class. def method_added(name) hpricot_slate_method_added(name) return if self != Object Hpricot::BlankSlate.hide(name) end end end