Basic Object

This is just a snippet to use Basic Object in ruby 1.8.7.

Sometimes we need to start from blank state instead of rich ruby object. Most often this is when we implement a kind of decorator/delegator patten. Ruby 1.9.2+ provides us a special class BasicObjectfor this, but if you have to use 1.8.7 - use this gem. It provides (almost) the same BasicObject class, so you will use the same code for 1.8.7 and 1.9.2.

Installation

In your Gemfile:

gem 'basic_object' unless defined?(BasicObject)

Usage

Inherit from BasicObject. That's it.