Class: Hash

Inherits:
Object show all
Defined in:
lib/switchvox/hash.rb

Overview

A fancy way of iterating over a hash and converting hashes to objects

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#to_obj ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/switchvox/hash.rb', line 3

def to_obj
  o = Object.new
  self.each do |k,v|
    # If we're looking at a hash or array, we need to look through them and convert any hashes to objects as well
    case v.class.to_s
      when "Hash"  then v = v.to_obj
      when "Array" then v = v.to_obj
    end
    o.instance_variable_set("@#{k}", v)  ## create and initialize an instance variable for this key/value pair
    o.class.send(:define_method, k, proc{o.instance_variable_get("@#{k}")})  ## create the getter that returns the instance variable
    o.class.send(:define_method, "#{k}=", proc{|v| o.instance_variable_set("@#{k}", v)})  ## create the setter that sets the instance variable
  end
  o
end