Bonk
Why is it called bonk? Because it's a really hard tap.
Bonk is a gem which adds the super cool bonk method to Ruby's Object class.
It can be thought of as #map for individual objects or a really hard #tap.
The semantics of Bonk are identical to [object].map{|o| ... }.first but
without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace.
Why would you bother using bonk?
- I dunno, I just like to avoid unnecessary temporary variables.
- Bonk came about because I wanted to take an ActiveRecord model and send
them through a reporting script I wrote that took hashes of information. I tried
to do the transformation inline but realized that what I wanted,
#mapforObject, didn't exist. So I made it using the power of Ruby.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'bonk'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install bonk
Usage
Project.find(42).owner.bonk do |o|
{ :id => o.id, :name => o.realname,
:problem => "Never updated credit card information." }
end
Disclaimer
Don't trust this gem with nuclear submarine controls. I seriously conceived it and wrote it over two train rides after a late night conversation with my none too amused girlfriend.