rhook - Easily drive AOP & hacking existing library with Ruby¶ ↑

• Homepage & Source – github.com/kaorukobo/rhook

• Download – rubygems.org/gems/rhook

• API Documentation (RDoc) – rubydoc.info/github/kaorukobo/rhook/master/frames

Summary¶ ↑

• You can provide hook point in your code,

  • and can customize its behavior from outside.

• Also you can ‘hack’ (== injecting hook point from outside) any methods in existing code.

Install¶ ↑

gem install rhook

Basic Usage¶ ↑

step. Example code¶ ↑

class TargetBasic
  def greeting
    my_name = "Mike"
    your_name = "Dan"
    hello(your_name) + "I am #{my_name}."
  end

  def hello(name)
    "Hello, #{name}. "
  end
end #/TargetBasic

that behaves as:¶ ↑

t = TargetBasic.new
t.greeting.should == "Hello, Dan. I am Mike."

step. Insert hook point in TargetBasic¶ ↑

require "rhook"      # <==   load library.

class TargetBasic
  def greeting
    my_name = _rhook.does(:my_name) { "Mike"; }         # <==  my_name = "Mike"
    your_name = "Dan"
    _rhook.to.hello(your_name) + "I am #{my_name}."         # <==  hello(your_name) + "I am #{my_name}."
  end

  def hello(name)
    "Hello, #{name}. "
  end
end #/TargetBasic

step. Add hook from outside, and change behavior.¶ ↑

t = TargetBasic.new
t._rhook.bind(:hello) { |inv|
  inv.args[0] = "Jenkins"     # change first argument.
  inv.call
}
t._rhook.bind(:my_name) { |inv|
  "Katherine"     # change return value.
}

that behaves as:¶ ↑

t.greeting.should == "Hello, Jenkins. I am Katherine."
                             ~~~~~~~       ~~~~~~~~~

More Basic TIPs¶ ↑

about ‘_rhook’¶ ↑

Once you require ‘rhook’, any objects has ‘_rhook’ method to access any rhook services. (that returns {RHook::RHookService} object.)

any_object = Object.new
any_object._rhook.RHOOK_METHOD

See rubydoc.info/github/kaorukobo/rhook/master/RHook/RHookService

What is ‘inv’ ?¶ ↑

{RHook::Invocation} object, that contains:

• call() method to proceed method invocation.

• receiver, arguments/blcoks passed to method, and the other informations. See {RHook::Invocation}.

See rubydoc.info/github/kaorukobo/rhook/master/RHook/Invocation

If you want ‘bind’ to not only an object, but any instances of class:¶ ↑

TargetBasic._rhook.bind(:hello) { |inv| ...

If you want to HACK exisitng methods, use ‘_rhook.hack’:¶ ↑

for the paticular instance:

t = Time.now
t._rhook.hack(:to_s) do |inv|
  "haha! I hacked to_s."
end
t.to_s.should == "haha! I hacked."

for entire class:

Time._rhook.hack(:to_s) do |inv|
  "haha! I hacked to_s."
end
(Time.now).to_s.should == "haha! I hacked to_s."

for class method:

Time._rhook.hack(:now) do |inv|
  "haha! you cannot get time."
end
Time.now.should == "haha! you cannot get time."

More Usage …¶ ↑

Please see spec: github.com/kaorukobo/rhook/blob/master/spec/rhook_spec.rb

Practical Examples¶ ↑

1. Log Buffer¶ ↑

Log Buffer allows you to capture any messages written to Logger and keep in buffer.

For example, you can examine the target program’s log messages in testing code.

github.com/kaorukobo/rhook/blob/master/spec/examples/log_buffer_example_spec.rb

…¶ ↑

Note on Patches/Pull Requests¶ ↑

• Fork the project.

• Make your feature addition or bug fix.

• Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.

• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)

• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright¶ ↑

Copyright © 2010 Kaoru Kobo. See LICENSE for details.