I saw someone post a snippet of code that turned an object (with some sort of "each" method) into an enumerable. It looked really neat, until I tried:
>> "abcdef".to_enum(:each_byte)
NoMethodError: undefined method `to_enum' for "abcdef":String
from (irb):1
>>
I looked it up and ri seems to think I have Object#to_enum. The underlying code is c, so frankly, I don't understand it. Even running the examples from the documentation or looking at Object.new.methods, I see nothing about this elusive method. Does anybody have any insight? (I'm using ruby 1.8.6.)
Alle giovedì 26 aprile 2007, Dan Zwell ha scritto:
Hi, all.
I saw someone post a snippet of code that turned an object (with some
sort of "each" method) into an enumerable. It looked really neat, until
I tried:
>> "abcdef".to_enum(:each_byte)
NoMethodError: undefined method `to_enum' for "abcdef":String
from (irb):1
I looked it up and ri seems to think I have Object#to_enum. The
underlying code is c, so frankly, I don't understand it. Even running
the examples from the documentation or looking at Object.new.methods, I
see nothing about this elusive method. Does anybody have any insight?
(I'm using ruby 1.8.6.)
Thanks,
Dan
You need to require 'enumerator'. Doing this will result in the to_enum method
to be added to the Kernel module and to class Object, which mixes Kernel in.
For example
require 'enumerator'
"abcdef".to_enum(:each_byte).each{|b| puts b.chr}
a
b
c
d
e
f
Thank you. I feel silly for making such a newbie-ish mistake, but then again, I'm a newbie.
Dan
Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
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Hi,
In message "Re: does Object#to_enum exist?" > on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:45:36 +0900, Dan Zwell <dzwell@gmail.com> writes:
>I saw someone post a snippet of code that turned an object (with some >sort of "each" method) into an enumerable. It looked really neat, until >I tried:
>
> >> "abcdef".to_enum(:each_byte)
>NoMethodError: undefined method `to_enum' for "abcdef":String
> from (irb):1
> >>
>
>I looked it up and ri seems to think I have Object#to_enum.
It's available only for 1.9. You can use it with Enumerator
additional library installed.