Evgenii Legotckoi
Evgenii LegotckoiJune 29, 2016, 2:51 a.m.

User Guide #18 - Ruby - procedure objects

It is often desirable to be able to specify responses to unexpected events. As it turns out, this is most easily done if we can pass blocks of code as arguments to other methods, which means we want to be able to treat code as if it were data.

A new procedure object is formed using call :

ruby> quux = proc {
    |   print "QUUXQUUXQUUX!!!\n"
    | }
   #<Proc:0x4017357c>

Now what quux refers to is an object, and like most objects, it has behavior that can be evoked. Specifically, we can ask it to execute, via its call method:

ruby> quux.call
QUUXQUUXQUUX!!!
   nil

So, after all that, can quux be used as a method argument? Sure.

ruby> def run( p )
    |   print "About to call a procedure...\n"
    |   p.call
    |   print "There: finished.\n"
    | end
   nil
ruby> run quux
About to call a procedure...
QUUXQUUXQUUX!!!
There: finished.
   nil

The trap method lets us assign the response of our choice to any system signal.

ruby> inthandler = proc{ print "^C was pressed.\n" }
   #<Proc:0x401730a4>
ruby> trap "SIGINT", inthandler
   #<Proc:0x401735e0>

Normally pressing Ctrl+C makes the interpreter quit. Now a message is printed and the interpreter continues running, so you don't lose the work you were doing. (You're not trapped in the interpreter forever; you can still exit by typing exit or pressing Ctrl+D )

A final note before we move on to other topics: it's not strictly necessary to give a procedure object a name before binding it to a signal. An equivalent anonymous procedure object would look like

ruby> trap "SIGINT", proc{ print "^C was pressed.\n" }
   nil

or more compactly still,

ruby> trap "SIGINT", 'print "^C was pressed.\n"'
   nil

This abbreviated form provides some convenience and readability when you write small anonymous procedures.

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