Aspect Oriented Programming in Ruby

Question

What frameworks exist to add AOP to Ruby?

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 03 '14 at 16:59

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With Ruby 2.0+, you don't necessarily need a framework:

module BarkLogger
  def bark
    puts "Logging #@name's bark!"
    super
  end
end

class Dog
  prepend BarkLogger

  def initialize(name)
    @name = name
  end

  def bark
    puts "#@name the dog says bark!"
  end
end

Dog.new("Rufus").bark

Output:

Logging Rufus's bark!

Rufus the dog says bark!

answered Jul 03 '14 at 16:59

Ajedi32

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In my opinion this is a great solution. It doesn't require any gems. – Robbin Voortman Mar 07 '17 at 10:01

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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You haven't specified any criteria for evaluating different frameworks, so here's one that I found after 3 seconds on Google: Aquarium.

Another one, suggested by @Telemachus: gazer.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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answered Mar 22 '11 at 15:38

Matt Ball

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Yup, I did about the same: Google suggested [Aquarium](https://github.com/deanwampler/Aquarium) as you say and also [gazer](https://github.com/teejayvanslyke/gazer). – Telemachus Mar 22 '11 at 15:42
Aquarium last had a gem release in October 2009. – Andrew Grimm Nov 30 '11 at 03:31
@Andrew the github page that Telemachus linked shows (much) more recent activity, FWIW. – Matt Ball Nov 30 '11 at 03:35
It might be worth mentioning here, that Aquarium is not thread-safe: https://github.com/deanwampler/Aquarium/issues/39 – Andrzej Krzywda Apr 20 '13 at 07:55

Guoliang Cao · Answer 3 · 2012-06-21T21:18:33.570

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Shameless plug: aspector could be what you are looking for. It allows you to define aspect and then apply to one or more targets.

edited Jun 21 '12 at 21:18

answered Jun 15 '12 at 13:23

Guoliang Cao

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 12 '13 at 14:04

I tried 2 or 3 years ago Aquarium gem at university project. Worked nice, aim of project was comparing with AspectJ, to find out if it is capable of all things as AspectJ. At that time a lot of functionality, which AspectJ was capable of, was missing. But now I see a many things were added, so it's worth a try again.

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 10 '12 at 19:58

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AspectR (last release looks like in 2002) - originally the canonical AOP library in Ruby.

Facets - has some AOP functionality.

answered Aug 10 '12 at 19:58

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