Iso::Init

This is a gem to help Isolate object initialization.

What's wrong with the following?

SomeKlass = Class.new(Struct.new(options))
options = {foo: bar}
object = SomeKlass.new(options)
object.options
# => { :foo => :bar }
options[:baz] = bingo # DANGER, WILL ROBINSON
object.options
# => { :foo => :bar, :baz => :bingo }

That's right. You passed an object by reference, so when that object changed, all references to it also changed, which was not what you intended to do.

IsoInit fixes that.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'iso-init'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install iso-init

SomeKlass = Class.new(Struct.new(options)) { include IsoInit }
options = {foo: bar}
object = SomeKlass.new(options)
object.options
# => { :foo => :bar }
options[:baz] = bingo # DANGER, WILL ROBINSON ???
object.options
# => { :foo => :bar }
# Sweet! It didn't change!
object.options.frozen?
# => true
# ok. that's what I was hoping for. yay.

If an object is immutable, it won't be dup'd (e.g., true, nil, 1, 3.1415926), but if it is mutable, initialize will be called with a frozen duplicate.

Sweeeeet.

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

Dual-licensed under MIT and WTFPL.