Change the context/binding inside a block in ruby

Question

I have a DSL in Ruby that works like so:

desc \'list all todos\'
command :list do |c|
  c.desc \'show todos in long form\'
  c.switch :l
  c.action do |globa         


        

Answer 1

Paste this code:

  def evaluate(&block)
    @self_before_instance_eval = eval "self", block.binding
    instance_eval &block
  end

  def method_missing(method, *args, &block)
    @self_before_instance_eval.send method, *args, &block
  end

For more information, refer to this really good article here

Answer 2

class CommandDSL
  def self.call(&blk)
    # Create a new CommandDSL instance, and instance_eval the block to it
    instance = new
    instance.instance_eval(&blk)
    # Now return all of the set instance variables as a Hash
    instance.instance_variables.inject({}) { |result_hash, instance_variable|
      result_hash[instance_variable] = instance.instance_variable_get(instance_variable)
      result_hash # Gotta have the block return the result_hash
    }
  end

  def desc(str); @desc = str; end
  def switch(sym); @switch = sym; end
  def action(&blk); @action = blk; end
end

def command(name, &blk)
  values_set_within_dsl = CommandDSL.call(&blk)

  # INSERT CODE HERE
  p name
  p values_set_within_dsl 
end

command :list do
  desc 'show todos in long form'
  switch :l
  action do |global,option,args|
    # some code that's not relevant to this question
  end
end

Will print:

:list
{:@desc=>"show todos in long form", :@switch=>:l, :@action=>#<Proc:0x2392830@C:/Users/Ryguy/Desktop/tesdt.rb:38>}

Answer 3

Maybe

def command(*names, &blk)
  command = make_command_object(..)
  command.instance_eval(&blk)
end

can evaluate the block in the context of command object.

Answer 4

I wrote a class that handles this exact issue, and deals with things like @instance_variable access, nesting, and so forth. Here's the write-up from another question:

Block call in Ruby on Rails