dry-plugins: DSL for plugins

Abstract DSL for providing plug-in interface for PORO and complex structures.

Wikipedia says following:

The host application provides services which the plug-in can use, including a way for plug-ins to register themselves with the host application and a protocol for the exchange of data with plug-ins. Plug-ins depend on the services provided by the host application and do not usually work by themselves. Conversely, the host application operates independently of the plug-ins, making it possible for end-users to add and update plug-ins dynamically without needing to make changes to the host application.

Programmers typically implement plug-in functionality using shared libraries installed in a place prescribed by the host application. HyperCard supported a similar facility, but more commonly included the plug-in code in the HyperCard documents (called stacks) themselves. Thus the HyperCard stack became a self-contained application in its own right, distributable as a single entity that end-users could run without the need for additional installation-steps. Programs may also implement plugins by loading a directory of simple script files written in a scripting language like Python or Lua.

TL;DR

dry-plugins is a utility to provide plug-ins interface for your Ruby class (called host in documentation).

See Dry::Plugins.

Configuration: see Dry::Plugins::Config.

Documentation:

© Alex Semyonov <[email protected]>, 2017, MIT license