Type:
Class
A concrete implementation of Delegator, this class provides the means to delegate all supported method calls to the object passed into the constructor and even to change the object being delegated to at a later time with #__setobj__.
Here's a simple example that takes advantage of the fact that SimpleDelegator's delegation object can be changed at any time.
class Stats def initialize @source = SimpleDelegator.new([]) end def stats(records) @source.__setobj__(records) "Elements: #{@source.size}\n" + " Non-Nil: #{@source.compact.size}\n" + " Unique: #{@source.uniq.size}\n" end end s = Stats.new puts s.stats(%w{James Edward Gray II}) puts puts s.stats([1, 2, 3, nil, 4, 5, 1, 2])
Prints:
Elements: 4 Non-Nil: 4 Unique: 4 Elements: 8 Non-Nil: 7 Unique: 6