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davidbella / person.rb
Created October 10, 2013 13:37
Ruby: Dynamic meta-programming to create attr_accessor like methods on the fly
class Person
def initialize(attributes)
attributes.each do |attribute_name, attribute_value|
##### Method one #####
# Works just great, but uses something scary like eval
# self.class.class_eval {attr_accessor attribute_name}
# self.instance_variable_set("@#{attribute_name}", attribute_value)
##### Method two #####
# Manually creates methods for both getter and setter and then