Module: StateFu::Interface::SoftAlias

Defined in:
lib/interface.rb

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#soft_alias(x) ⇒ Object

define aliases that won’t clobber existing methods - so we can be liberal with them.



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# File 'lib/interface.rb', line 7

def soft_alias(x)
  aliases  = [ x.to_a[0] ].flatten
  original = aliases.shift
  existing_method_names = (self.instance_methods | self.protected_instance_methods | self.private_instance_methods).map(&:to_sym)
  taken, ok = aliases.partition { |a| existing_method_names.include?(a.to_sym) }
  StateFu::Logger.debug("#{self.to_s} alias for ## #{original} already taken: #{taken.inspect}")  unless taken.empty?
  ok.each { |a| alias_method a, original}
end