Attrs

Yet another attributes on steroids gem.

Heavily inspired by Virtus and Values which both are great projects.

The purpose of this project is to have a small & simple codebase and minimum number of features. For a more complex solution I strongly recommend Virtus which I'm happily using in production.

Features

• immutability
• all attributes must be specified on initialisation. Hopefully less nil's flying around
• uses attr_reader and attr_writer. Can be easily overwritten
• just ~50 LOC (not including coercion support)
• no external dependencies (again, not counting coercion which requires coercible gem)

Usage

Let's write a Person class:

require 'attrs'

class Person < Attrs(:name, :age)
  private

  def default_name
    "Anonymous"
  end

  def age=(new_age)
    super(new_age.to_i)
  end
end

person = Person.new(name: 'John Doe', age: '26')

with this code we can:

• get the attributes hash: person.attributes # => {:name => "John Doe", :age => 26}
• get the attribute names: Person.attribute_names # => [:name, :age]
• compare with other objects: person == {:name => "John Doe", :age => 26} # => true
• Explicitly set default values: `Person.new(age: 26).name # => "Anonymous"

and more! See: https://github.com/wojtekmach/attrs/blob/master/test/attrs_test.rb

Coercion

Notice in previous example we added custom age= writer to coerce argument to integer.

One of my favourite features of Virtus is attribute coercion, and you can use it here too. In fact it's using the same library that was extracted out from Virtus: https://github.com/solnic/coercible

gem install coercible

require 'attrs/coercible'

class Person < Attrs(name: String, age: Integer)
end

or, simply:

Person = Attrs(name: String, age: Integer)

(note, using 2nd style you won't be able to use super when overwriting methods)

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'attrs'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install attrs

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request