Gorillib: infochimps’ lightweight subset of ruby convenience methods
We love the conveniences provided by active_support and extlib, we just don’t love them at the same time and on top of each other. active_support is slow to load, has many dependencies, and is all intertwingled. We had too many collisions between active_support 2.x and 3.x and extlib.
What gorillib gives you is clarity over what features are brought in. If you want to just get Object#blank?
, just require 'gorillib/object/blank'
. No dependencies, no codependents.
- No creep: include only what you need
- No dependencies unless audaciously advertised.
- Upwards compatible with active_record and extlib – the active_support components have significantly more robust internationalization, and some functions have rich option sets in active_support vs. basic functionality in gorillib. So the rule is if you were happy with gorillib you’ll be happy with active_support, but not vice-versa.
require ‘gorillib/receiver’
Gorillib has at least one powerful addition to the canon: the receiver mixin.
- lightweight
- gives you weak type safety but doesn’t jack around with setters/getters.
- object/hash semantics
require ‘gorillib’
- require ‘gorrillib/base’
require ‘gorillib/base’
requires the following libraries:
- gorillib/object/blank
- gorillib/hash/reverse_merge
- gorillib/hash/compact
- gorillib/array/compact_blank
- gorillib/object/try
require ‘gorillib/some’
requires gorillib/base
and the following additional libraries:
- gorillib/logger/log.rb
- set
- time
- date
- gorillib/array/extract_options
- gorillib/enumerable/sum
- gorillib/datetime/flat
- gorillib/datetime/parse
- gorillib/hash/zip
- gorillib/hash/slice
- gorillib/hash/keys
- gorillib/metaprogramming/class_attribute
- gorillib/metaprogramming/cattr_accessor
- gorillib/metaprogramming/singleton_class
- gorillib/metaprogramming/remove_method
gorillib/array
- gorrillib/array/extract_options – Array extract_options! – Hash extractable_options? (helper method)
- gorrillib/array/compact_blank – Array compact_blank, compact_blank!
- gorrillib/array/deep_compact – Array deep_compact, deep_compact!
gorillib/datetime
- gorillib/datetime/flat – Date, Time to_flat
- gorillib/datetime/parse – Time parse_safely
gorillib/enumerable
- gorillib/enumerable/sum – Enumerable sum
gorillib/hash
- gorillib/hash/compact – Hash compact, compact!, compact_blank, compact_blank!
- gorrilib/hash/deep_compact – Hash deep_compact, deep_compact!
- gorrilib/hash/deep_merge – Hash deep_merge, deep_merge!
- gorillib/hash/keys – Hash stringify_keys, stringify_keys!, symbolize_keys, symbolize_keys! – Hash assert_valid_keys
- gorillib/hash/reverse_merge – Hash reverse_merge, reverse_merge!
- gorillib/hash/slice – Hash slice, slice!, extract!
- gorillib/hash/zip – Hash Hash.zip
gorillib/logger
- gorillib/logger/log – Unless the top-level constant ::Log has been defined, opens a new Logger to STDERR and assigns it to ::Log
gorillib/metaprogramming
- gorillib/metaprogramming/aliasing – alias_method_chain
- gorillib/metaprogramming/class_attribute – Class class_attribute
- gorillib/metaprogramming/remove_method required with class_attribute – Module remove_possible_method, redefine_method
- gorillib/metaprogramming/singleton_class required with class_attribute – Kernel singleton_class
- gorillib/metaprogramming/cattr_accessor – Class# cattr_reader, cattr_writer, cattr_accessor
- gorillib/metaprogramming/mattr_accessor – Class# mattr_reader, mattr_writer, mattr_accessor
- gorillib/metaprogramming/delegation – Module# delegate
gorillib/numeric
- gorillib/numeric/clamp – Numeric clamp — coerce a number to lie within a certain min/max
gorillib/object
- gorillib/object/blank – Object blank?, present? (and specialized for all other classes)
- gorillib/object/try – Object try
- gorillib/object/try_dup – Object try_dup
gorillib/string
- gorillib/string/constantize – String constantize
- gorillib/string/inflections: – String camelize – String snakeize – String underscore – String demodulize
- gorillib/string/human – String titleize – String humainze – Array as_sentence
- gorillib/string/truncate – String truncate
Maybe and No
Maybe
- Mash
- Receiver
- Struct
- gorillib/string/escaping: DEPENDENCIES_: htmlentities, addressable/uri – String xml_escape – String url_escape – String escape_regexp, unescaperegexp
- extlib/module/find_const – Module find_const
No
- String classify — this singularizes. You want camelize unless you’re in ActiveSupport
- Object tap isn’t necessary — included in 1.8.7+
- Symbol to_proc isn’t necessary — included in 1.8.7+
- Class class_inheritable_attribute — use class_attribute instead
- Object to_flat on anything but Time and Date — poorly-defined
- Object returning — deprecated in favor of #tap
Credits & Copyright
Most of this code is ripped from active_support and extlib — their license carries over. Everything else is Copyright © 2011 Infochimps. See LICENSE.txt for further details.