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Real

There is a problem in the realm of Ruby metaprogramming --objects can be liers. You see, there is no guaruntee that the return value of a method is the "truth". Any object can play dirty tricks.

string = "Watch this..."

def string.class
  nil
end

string.class  #=> nil

We are never going to know what the real class of that object is by asking it. So what can we do?

I've advocated for explict meta-programming methods be added to Ruby for a long time. So far to no avail. Finally, I've decided I could at least provide my own library that provides the functionality.

require 'real'

$real.class(string)  #=> String

Installation

Putting the old RubyGems to work:

$ gem install real

Copyrights

Real is copyrighted open source software.

Copyright (c) 2012 Rubyworks (BSD-2-Clause)

You many redistribute or modify this work in accordance with the BSD-2-Clause license.

See LICENSE.txt for details.