Re: Execute block in context of yielding method's module

Interesting... Thanks!

On 11/12/05, Ara.T.Howard <ara.t.howard@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Christian Leskowsky wrote:
>
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I'm very new to ruby.
> >
> > This is some freaky ***! Could somebody give me a use case as to when
> I'd
> > want to do something like this?
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>
> harp:~ > cat a.rb
> module Connection
> class << self
> def host arg = nil
> @host = arg if arg
> @host
> end
> def port arg = nil
> @port = arg if arg
> @port
> end
> def configure &block
> instance_eval &block
> end
> end
> end
>
> Connection::configure do
> host 'http://codeforpeople.com'
> port 80
> end
>
> p Connection::host
> p Connection::port
>
>
> harp:~ > ruby a.rb
> "http://codeforpeople.com";
> 80
>
>
> regards.
>
> -a
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>
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>
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