The latest articles on DEV Community by Peter P (@peteonthings). https://dev.to/peteonthings https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F260198%2F589642f8-d040-45dc-970a-f890a56a178a.png https://dev.to/peteonthings en Peter P Wed, 15 Jan 2020 04:07:28 +0000 https://dev.to/peteonthings/how-to-decorate-any-object-in-ruby-in-3-lines-kbh https://dev.to/peteonthings/how-to-decorate-any-object-in-ruby-in-3-lines-kbh <p>Here is a quick and easy way to decorate any object instance in Ruby. </p> <div class="ltag_gist-liquid-tag"> </div> <p>This is useful if you don't know or care the object type you are working with but would like to add accessor methods to just that instance. This is a very pure decorator because adding accessors does not rely on internal knowledge of the object. </p> <p>We're just dynamically adding functionality to the instance as we need it. </p> <p>NOTE: This could clobber existing functionality, so you want be sure you are decorating it with a method name that won't interfere with the object class. </p> ruby metaprogramming