Method not missing

By including the module MethodNotMissing, an object's method_missing will be replaced by googling to rdoc and implemented on the fly. Instance variables are added where missing and missing constants are also declared on the fly.

There's some backtracking if the implementation found raises an error (like stack overflows) or if a nested method lookup fails.

Installation

gem install method_not_missing

External dependencies

  • PhantomJS ( brew install phantomjs on OSX )

Warnings

This is insane.

Example

require "method_not_missing"

object = MethodNotMissing::OmnipotentObject.new
object.update([3])
## Googling...
#=> [3]
object.update([4])
#=> [3, 4]
object.inspect
#=> #<MethodNotMissing::OmnipotentObject:70308021738440 @uncounted=[3, 4]>

Future work:

  • Type Safety: since we get the arity of the requested function, we could filter out the ones with the wrong number of argument. This is implemented with exception-driven backtracking on ArgumentErrors right now.

  • Enterprise

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/method_not_missing/fork )
  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 a new Pull Request