Metaprogramming Ruby 2

Dynamic Methods

Where you learn how to call and define methods dynamically, and you remove the duplicated code.

“When I was a young developer learning C++,” Bill says, “my mentors told me that when you call a method, you’re actually sending a message to an object. It took me a while to get used to that concept. If I’d been using Ruby back then, that notion of sending messages would have come more naturally to me.”

Calling Methods Dynamically

When you call a method, you usually do so using the standard dot notation:

methods/dynamic_call.rb

class MyClass
  def my_method(my_arg)
    my_arg * 2
  end
end

obj = MyClass.new
obj.my_method(3)  # => 6

You also have an alternative: call MyClass#my_method using Object#send in place of ...