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I am sure there is a better way to do this, so please let me know.

It somehow came up that someone wanted to feel JavaScripty when creating objects with methods.

People often follow the pattern below in JavaScript:


{ foo: function() { ... }, bar: function() { ... } }


How about in Ruby? Lucas Carlson talked about dynamically adding methods to classes through their objects in Ruby, and of course it is simple to do:

o = Object.new
def o.foo
  puts 'whee'
end

But what if you want to make this more JavaScripty:


x = {:a => lambda { puts 'whee' }, :b => lambda { puts 'foo' }}.to_o
x.a


A simple bit of code did this (without good checking of things):

class Hash
  def to_o
    o = Object.new
    self.each do |k,v|
      if v.is_a?(Proc)  
        o.class.instance_eval do
          define_method(k.to_s, v)      
        end                     
      end               
    end         
    o           
  end   
end