methodfinder 1.0.1 → 1.1.0

data/README.markdown

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ that produce the result when called on the receiver with the arguments.
 Usage
 ---
 
-    >> Methodfinder.find(10,1,3)
+    >> MethodFinder.find(10,1,3)
     => [:%, :<=>, :>>, :[], :modulo, :remainder]
     >> MethodFinder.find("abc","ABC")
     => [:swapcase, :swapcase!, :upcase, :upcase!]
@@ -17,10 +17,38 @@ Usage
     >> MethodFinder.find(['a','b','c'],['A','B','C']) { |x| x.upcase }
     => [:collect, :collect!, :map, :map!]
 
+Thanks to a
+[suggestion](https://github.com/citizen428/methodfinder/issues/closed#issue/3)
+by Ryan Bates, this gem now also provides an alternative interface:
+
+    >> %w[a b c].find_method { |a| a.unknown(1) ; a == %w[a c] }
+    => [:delete_at, :slice!]
+    >> 10.find_method { |n| n.unknown(3) == 1 }
+    => [:%, :<=>, :>>, :[], :gcd, :modulo, :remainder]
+
+Inside `find_method`'s block, the receiver is available as block
+argument the special method `unknown` is used as a placeholder for the
+desired method.
+
+Warning
+---
+
+Common sense not included!
+
+While I never had any problems with this, it's still better to be
+safe than sorry, so use this with caution and maybe not on production
+data. 
+
+I initially wrote this for the students of the core Ruby course on
+[RubyLearning](http://rubylearning.org), so Rails is not of interest
+to me (not saying it doesn't work there, just that I test in plain
+IRB, not with `script/console`).  
+
 Todo
 ---
 
-* none at the moment
+* a method black list
+* maybe an alternate form of calling this (issue #3)
 
 
 Thanks

data/lib/methodfinder.rb

@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 require 'stringio'
 
+class Object
+  def find_method(*args, &block)
+    self.methods.sort.map(&:intern).map do |met|
+      self.class.class_eval %{ alias :unknown #{met} }
+      obj = self.dup rescue self
+      [met, (yield obj rescue nil)]
+    end.select(&:last).map(&:first)
+  end
+end
+
 class MethodFinder
   ARGS = {
     :cycle => [1] # prevent cycling forever

metadata

@@ -1,12 +1,8 @@
 --- !ruby/object:Gem::Specification 
 name: methodfinder
 version: !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-  prerelease: false
-  segments: 
-  - 1
-  - 0
-  - 1
-  version: 1.0.1
+  prerelease: 
+  version: 1.1.0
 platform: ruby
 authors: 
 - Michael Kohl
@@ -14,7 +10,7 @@ autorequire:
 bindir: bin
 cert_chain: []
 
-date: 2011-03-11 00:00:00 +01:00
+date: 2011-03-31 00:00:00 +02:00
 default_executable: 
 dependencies: []
 
@@ -44,21 +40,17 @@ required_ruby_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement
   requirements: 
   - - ">="
     - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-      segments: 
-      - 0
       version: "0"
 required_rubygems_version: !ruby/object:Gem::Requirement 
   none: false
   requirements: 
   - - ">="
     - !ruby/object:Gem::Version 
-      segments: 
-      - 0
       version: "0"
 requirements: []
 
 rubyforge_project: 
-rubygems_version: 1.3.7
+rubygems_version: 1.6.2
 signing_key: 
 specification_version: 3
 summary: A Smalltalk-like Method Finder for Ruby