Inheritance & Composition playing nice in Ruby

storage_agnostic.rb

module StorageAgnostic

  class FileStore
    # common filestore methods
  end

  class LocalFilesystem < FileStore
    # optionally override common filestore methods for special needs
  end

  class RackspaceCloud < FileStore
    include HttpTransport
    include AuthHttpBasic

    # optionally override common filestore methods for special needs
  end

  class GoogleDrive < FileStore
    include HttpTransport
    include AuthOauth

    # optionally override common filestore methods for special needs
  end

  class AmazonS3 < FileStore
    include S3FlavoredRestHttpTransport
    include AuthCustomHttpHeaders

    # optionally override common filestore methods for special needs
  end

end

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