Provides a collection of core objects missing from the standard Ruby distribution. This is meant to provide common objects for engineering advanced architctures in order to reduce duplication, improve performance, and improve memory usage.

Features

  • Provides commonly needed core objects.

Requirements

  1. Ruby.

Setup

To set up the project, run:

bin/setup

Usage

The following details what is currently available for use.

Constants

The following empty constants are frozen by default and available for use as core objects for use throughout your application.

  • Core::EMPTY_ARRAY: Provides an empty Array instance.

  • Core::EMPTY_DATA: Provides an empty Data instance.

  • Core::EMPTY_HASH: Provides an empty Hash instance.

  • Core::EMPTY_SET: Provides an empty Set instance.

  • Core::EMPTY_STRING: Provides an empty String instance.

  • Core::EMPTY_STRUCT: Provides an empty Struct instance.

Functions

The following identity function (lambda) is available as a neutral value in function composition:

Core::Identity.call "example"  # "example"

Development

To contribute, run:

git clone https://github.com/bkuhlmann/core
cd core
bin/setup

You can also use the IRB console for direct access to all objects:

bin/console

Tests

To test, run:

bin/rake

Credits