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Comprehensive Ruby Programming

You're reading from   Comprehensive Ruby Programming From beginner to confident programmer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280649
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to the Ruby Programming Language 2. Ruby Variables FREE CHAPTER 3. Ruby Strings 4. Working with Numbers in Ruby 5. Ruby Methods 6. Ruby Iterators and Loops 7. Ruby Collections 8. Ruby Conditionals 9. Object-Oriented Programming in Ruby 10. Working with the Filesystem in Ruby 11. Error Handling in Ruby 12. Regular Expressions in Ruby 13. Searching with grep in Ruby 14. Ruby Gems 15. Ruby Metaprogramming 16. Ruby Web Frameworks 17. Working with APIs in Ruby 18. Ruby Algorithms 19. Machine Learning

Implementing metaprogramming with define_method

In this section, you'll learn about another metaprogramming mechanism called define _method that will allow you to dynamically create methods at runtime in a Ruby program.

We'll continue with our Author class and use a method called define_method here:

class Author
define_method("some_method") do
puts "Some details"
end
end

Next, we'll call this method:

author = Author.new
author.some_method

When you run this code, it'll print out the Some details value.

You may wonder how this is different from a regular method, such as this one:

def some_method
puts "Some details"
end

The answer is, they are the same!

So, this is not the kind of implementation you'd use define_method for in the real world. However, I wanted to start with this as a base case so you can see the core functionality...

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