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Feature #7240

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Inheritable #included/#extended Hooks For Modules

Added by apotonick (Nick Sutterer) over 11 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:48549]

Description

An inheritable hook mechanism for modules would be a great way for module/gem authors to simplify their implementations.

The Problem

Let's say I have the following module.

module A
def self.included(base)
# add class methods to base
end
end

So, A is overriding the #included hook to add class methods to base.

module B
include A

class methods from A are here.

end

Since B is including A, A's #included method is invoked and A's class methods will be copied to B.

module C
include B

class methods from B are lost.

end

When including B into C, B's #included is invoked and A's #included is lost. In our example, this means no class methods from A are in C.

Proposal

It would be cool if #included/#extended in a module could be inherited to including descendants. I wrote a small gem "uber" that does this kind of stuff with a simple recursion. Roughly, it works like this.

module A
extend InheritableIncluded # "execute my #included everytime me or my descendents are included."

def self.included(base)
  # add class methods to base
end

end

Now, A's #included is invoked every time it or a descending module is included. In our example, class methods from A would be around in C.

When discussing this with Matz we agreed that this might be really useful in Ruby itself. I'm just not sure how to mark inheritable hooks.

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