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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.