http://www.vitarara.org/cms/taxonomy/term/99/0 en http://www.vitarara.org/cms/refactoring_introduce_local_extension_in_ruby <p>I was recently reading Martin Fowler's <a href="">Refactoring</a>. While I was reading Introduce Local Extension (p. 164) all I could think of was how simple it is to implement in Ruby.</p> <h2>Motivation</h2> <p>As Fowler says in the motivation section writers of classes and libraries are not omniscient. Inevitably some class that you're using will be missing some feature you want. Using Introduce Local Extension you can add that additional functionality when you need it. </p> <p>In a statically typed language, like Java, this refactoring would involve creating either a wrapping class or a descendent of the original class. In Ruby we will accomplish the same thing using a mixin.</p> <p><a href="http://www.vitarara.org/cms/refactoring_introduce_local_extension_in_ruby">read more</a></p> http://www.vitarara.org/cms/refactoring_introduce_local_extension_in_ruby#comment Programming Refactoring Ruby Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:08:20 -0500 Mark 173 at http://www.vitarara.org/cms