rubymirrors 0.0.1

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+name: rubymirrors
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+  version: 0.0.1
+platform: ruby
+authors: 
+- Tim Felgentreff
+autorequire: 
+bindir: bin
+cert_chain: []
+
+date: 2011-11-10 00:00:00 Z
+dependencies: []
+
+description: |
+  ## A mirror API for Ruby
+  
+  In various [research][p1] [projects][p2] the advantages of having a [mirror
+  API][p3] to separate reflection from a language implementation have
+  been discussed, and "industry grade" implementations exist for
+  [Java][p4] and [C#][p5]. This project aims at providing a number of
+  specs and classes that document a mirror API for Ruby. The mirror
+  implementation that is part of this project will use only those
+  language facilities that are available across Ruby implementations.
+  The specs, however, will also test behavior that cannot be provided in
+  such a manner. The idea here is that in time, all implementations
+  provide their own implementation of the mirror API, and all
+  implementations collaborate on this one spec.
+  
+  Why do this, you ask? Because Ruby needs tools, and those tools need
+  to be written in Ruby. If they are not, then people will be excluded from
+  tinkering with their tools, thus impeding innovation. You only have to
+  look at Emacs or Smalltalk to see what's possible when programmers can
+  extend their tools, all tools, in a language they feel comfortable
+  in. If we have a standard mirror API, all tools that are written **for**
+  Ruby, **in** Ruby, can be shared across implementations, while at the same time
+  allowing language implementers to use the facilities of their platform
+  to provide optimal reflective capabilities without tying them to
+  internals.
+  
+  [p1]: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lorenz/papers/icse03/icse2003.pdf "Pluggable Reflection: Decoupling Meta-Interface and Implementation"
+  [p2]: http://bracha.org/newspeak-spec.pdf "Newspeak Programming Language Draft Specification, Version 0.06, pages 40 onward"
+  [p3]: http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/events/past/media/100105_Bracha_2010_LinguisticReflectionViaMirrors_HPI.mp4 "Linguistic Reflection Via Mirrors"
+  [p4]: http://bracha.org/mirrors.pdf "Mirrors: Design Principles for Meta-level Facilities of Object-Oriented Programming Languages"
+  [p5]: http://oreilly.com/catalog/progcsharp/chapter/ch18.html "See esp. 18-3, highlighting how C# reflection works on assembly rather than VM objects"
+
+email: 
+- timfelgentreff@gmail.com
+executables: []
+
+extensions: []
+
+extra_rdoc_files: []
+
+files: 
+- Gemfile
+- README.md
+- Rakefile
+- lib/abstract_reflection.rb
+- lib/abstract_reflection/class_mirror.rb
+- lib/abstract_reflection/compiler_mirror.rb
+- lib/abstract_reflection/field_mirror.rb
+- lib/abstract_reflection/gc_mirror.rb
+- lib/abstract_reflection/method_mirror.rb
+- lib/abstract_reflection/mirror.rb
+- lib/abstract_reflection/object_mirror.rb
+- lib/abstract_reflection/stack_frame_mirror.rb
+- lib/abstract_reflection/thread_mirror.rb
+- lib/maglev/reflection.rb
+- lib/maglev/reflection/class_mirror.rb
+- lib/maglev/reflection/core_ext/class_organizer.rb
+- lib/maglev/reflection/core_ext/maglev.rb
+- lib/maglev/reflection/core_ext/method.rb
+- lib/maglev/reflection/core_ext/module.rb
+- lib/maglev/reflection/core_ext/object.rb
+- lib/maglev/reflection/core_ext/thread.rb
+- lib/maglev/reflection/field_mirror.rb
+- lib/maglev/reflection/field_mirror/fixed_instance_variable_mirror.rb
+- lib/maglev/reflection/method_mirror.rb
+- lib/maglev/reflection/mirror.rb
+- lib/maglev/reflection/object_mirror.rb
+- lib/maglev/reflection/stack_frame_mirror.rb
+- lib/maglev/reflection/thread_mirror.rb
+- lib/rubinius/reflection.rb
+- lib/ruby/reflection.rb
+- lib/ruby/reflection/class_mirror.rb
+- lib/ruby/reflection/field_mirror.rb
+- lib/ruby/reflection/field_mirror/class_variable_mirror.rb
+- lib/ruby/reflection/field_mirror/constant_mirror.rb
+- lib/ruby/reflection/field_mirror/instance_variable_mirror.rb
+- lib/ruby/reflection/method_mirror.rb
+- lib/ruby/reflection/mirror.rb
+- lib/ruby/reflection/object_mirror.rb
+- lib/ruby/reflection/stack_frame_mirror.rb
+- lib/ruby/reflection/support/shift_reset.rb
+- lib/ruby/reflection/thread_mirror.rb
+- rubymirrors.gemspec
+- spec/class_spec.rb
+- spec/field_spec.rb
+- spec/fixtures/class_spec.rb
+- spec/fixtures/field_spec.rb
+- spec/fixtures/method_spec.rb
+- spec/fixtures/object_spec.rb
+- spec/fixtures/reflect_spec.rb
+- spec/fixtures/stack_frame_spec.rb
+- spec/fixtures/thread_spec.rb
+- spec/frame_spec.rb
+- spec/method_spec.rb
+- spec/object_spec.rb
+- spec/reflection_spec.rb
+- spec/spec_helper.rb
+- spec/spec_helper/mspec_patch.rb
+- spec/spec_helper/multiple_reflections.rb
+- spec/thread_spec.rb
+homepage: 
+licenses: []
+
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+
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+- lib
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+summary: Mirror API for Ruby
+test_files: 
+- spec/class_spec.rb
+- spec/field_spec.rb
+- spec/fixtures/class_spec.rb
+- spec/fixtures/field_spec.rb
+- spec/fixtures/method_spec.rb
+- spec/fixtures/object_spec.rb
+- spec/fixtures/reflect_spec.rb
+- spec/fixtures/stack_frame_spec.rb
+- spec/fixtures/thread_spec.rb
+- spec/frame_spec.rb
+- spec/method_spec.rb
+- spec/object_spec.rb
+- spec/reflection_spec.rb
+- spec/spec_helper.rb
+- spec/spec_helper/mspec_patch.rb
+- spec/spec_helper/multiple_reflections.rb
+- spec/thread_spec.rb