# module Cloneable

Clonable provides a standard basis for adding deep cloneablity to a class via the standard dup and clone methods.

Cloneable was originally ported from Jim Weirich's Rake. The current version is the work of Ken Bloom.

CREDIT: Ken Bloom

### Public Instance Methods

initialize_copy(sibling) click to toggle source
Calls superclass method

    # File lib/facets/cloneable.rb, line 11
    def initialize_copy(sibling)
      #first duplicate my superclass' state. Note that if it's duplicating
      #instance variables, this will be overwritten, but this is important
      #because we could be dealing with a C extension with state hidden from
      #the Ruby interpreter
      super

      #we want to know if we're being dup'ed or clone'd, because we want to
      #preserve the state of our internals the same way our state is being
      #preserved. (If we can't figure it out, we'll just use #dup.)
      operation = (
        copy_call  = caller.find{|x| x !~ /'initialize_copy'/}
        copy_match = copy_call.match(/`(dup|clone)'/)
        copy_match ? copy_match[1] : :dup
      )

      sibling.instance_variables.each do |ivar|
        value = sibling.instance_variable_get(ivar)

        #set my instance variable to be a #dup or #clone
        #or my sibling, depending on what's happening to me right now
        instance_variable_set(ivar, value.send(operation))
      end
    end