brentsnook/soop

Soop provides automagic mixing for your classes allowing you to keep other logic (such as presentation) from polluting the domain.

Soop

Soop provides automagic mixing for your classes allowing you to keep other logic (such as presentation) from polluting the domain.

Mixins are specified at the module level (i.e. mix Presentation into Core).

Classes can be mixed on demand or by hooking into ActiveSupport constant loading. Soop will search for corresponding mixins as a class is loaded via ActiveSupport.

At the moment Soop is a work in progress. A tagged release will be created when it's ready to go. Works as a plugin now but will be converted to a gem also.

Example

In your Rails project you have a target module called Domain and a mixin module named Presentation:

module Domain
  class Cat
    def noise
      'meow'
    end
  end
end

module Presentation
  module Cat
    def formatted_noise
      "<i>#{noise}</i>"  
    end
  end
end

In your environment.rb you add:

Soop.mix Core, :with => Presentation

And voila:

Domain::Cat.new.formatted_noise
  => '<i>meow</i>'

Installation

Install as a plugin in a Ruby on Rails app:

$ script/plugin install git://github.com/brentsnook/soop.git

Copyright (c) 2010 Brent Snook http://github.com/brentsnook, released under the MIT license