Ruby Help with Dynamic Methods

I need some help with defining a dynamic method.

Basically, I have many classes that reside within one module. I need to generate a list of methods within each class based on a passed in list of strings, which is specific to each class (i.e. different classes have different list of strings). The body of the method should be something like:

client.call(the_string, @an_instance_variable)

So basically I want to create a method that I can use in each of these classes that reside within the same module, in order to dynamically generate a bunch of methods based on the array of str开发者_StackOverflow中文版ings that was passed.

Something like:

register_methods @@string_array

So say "name" was a string in the array, then it would generate a method as such:

def name
  client.call("name", @an_instance_variable)
end

I hope that makes sense. I'm stumped after trying all sorts of things for hours, and would really appreciate any input. Thanks!

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don't have an irb available, but this should work

def register_methods strings
  strings.each do |s|
    define_method s.to_sym do
      client.call("name", @an_instance_variable)
    end
  end
end

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I don't know how you intend do use the @an_instance_variable, but you can also define methods that takes arguments like this:

def register_methods *methods
  methods.each do |method|
    define_method method do |arg|
      client.call(method, arg)
    end
  end
end

So if you send register_methods("name", "age") you would have two new methods looking like this:

def name(arg)
  client.call("name", arg)
end

def age(arg)
  client.call("age", arg)
end