I am a Java developer of many years & just starting to get into Ruby (&
really enjoying it!). However I am used to ‘coding by contract’ using
interfaces. This is especially great when using dependency injection
(usually via Spring). It makes testing very easy, as ‘mocks’ can be
written
simply & then plugged in. I know that there isn’t an equvalent for an
interface in Ruby, but is there a pattern which would typically be used?
I
was wondering whether to create Modules in place of my interfaces &
provide
them with methods which throw Exceptions, thus forcing them to be
overrriden
in the classes that include them? Also how does one manage dependency
injection in Ruby? Is there a good framework/library/pattern typically
used
for this, or are there good ‘Ruby reasons’ not to use DI?
I’m really new to dependency injection in general, but I hope I can
help,
though. I am aware of two libraries for what you want to do. Copland,
first,
is an Inversion of Control (IoC) container, based on the Hivemind IoC
container for java.
As you said, there is no interface in Ruby, so Interface based injection
is
not supported. However, Type 2 IoC (Setter Injection) and type 3 IoC
(Constructor Injection) are supported.
The second is Needle, which is a Dependency Injection container. I don’t
know
much about it, except it supports a Service Locator mechanism.
By the way, the documentations are great for both ! Read them both and
make
your choice !
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