Question about instance_eval, dynamic methods and blocks

Ruby
1

Not sure if I am attacking this correctly or not, so if anyone has any
insight, please assist.

Let me setup my situation

class Task

attr_reader :name

def initialize(name, &block)
@name = name

instance_eval <<-EOL
  def run(&block)
    yield if block_given?
    # i need the block passed to initialize to go here
    # but i am not sure how do do it
  end
end

end
end

t = Task.new(‘do_something’) { puts “I want this block to be the guts of
‘run’ method in t instance” }

t.run { “running #{@name}” }

basically i want to dynamically create the run method whenever i create
an instance of a task, and the guts of the run method to be the block
passed with .new but i also want the ability to have run accept a block
as well.

any help is appreciated.

2

Alle venerdì 14 settembre 2007, Chris H. ha scritto:

@name = name

any help is appreciated.

I’m not sure whether I understand your question correctly. Can’t you
store the
block passed to initialize in an instance variable and call it from run?

class Task

attr_reader :name

def initialize(name, &block)
@name = name
@block = block
end

def run
yield if block_given?
@block.call
end

end

If you need to create the run method dynamically for other reasons, I
think
the simplest way to achieve what you want is still to store the block
passed
to initialize in an instance variable:

class Task

attr_reader :name

def initialize name, &block
@name = name
@block = block
instance_eval do
def self.run
yield if block_given?
@block.call
end
end
end

end

I hope this helps

Stefano