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Design Patterns in Ruby
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Design Patterns in Ruby

by Russ Olsen
December 2007
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
7h 28m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 10. Getting in Front of Your Object with a Proxy

Software engineering is full of ironies. I can work day and night for months on the new BankAccount object, a technical masterpiece that allows clients to manage all their banking needs. Then I can labor for even more months to keep all but a very few (authorized) clients from getting anywhere near it.

But then my boss tells me that the authorized clients don’t even want my BankAccount object. Well, at least they don’t want it on their computers—it would be great if they could somehow use the BankAccount class while it is running on the server, but no way will the users install that thing on their computers.

Finally, as the all-but-impossible, we got to have this code right now deadline ...

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