inheritance-helper

A Ruby library that provides utility methods for handling class-level inheritance in Ruby. This gem makes it easy to manage and extend class methods and their values across your inheritance chain.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'inheritance-helper'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install inheritance-helper

The inheritance-helper gem provides utilities for managing class-level attributes and methods across inheritance chains. It's particularly useful when you need to accumulate or modify class-level data through inheritance.

class Model
  extend InheritanceHelper::Methods

  def self.attributes
    {}.freeze
  end

  def self.attribute(name, type)
    add_value_to_class_method(:attributes, name => type)
    attr_accessor name
  end
end

class Person < Model
  attribute :name, :string
  attribute :phone, :string
end

Person.attributes
# => {:name=>:string, :phone=>:string}

• Safely extend and modify class methods through inheritance
• Preserve class-level data integrity across the inheritance chain
• Simple and intuitive API for managing class attributes
• Thread-safe implementation

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

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.txt file for details.

Doug Youch (dougyouch+github@gmail.com)