eco-friendly
metaprogramming
similar libraries
There are a number of libraries which have similar features to or overlapping concerns with doodle. These are all worth checking out:
extended accessors
These are perhaps the most similar to doodle in intent.
- attributes, fattr by Ara Howard
- moose - a 'postmodern object system for Perl 5'
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- comparison with doodle by Barry Walsh (from a Moose point of view)
dsl
- DSL Kit by Florian Frank
command line option processing
configuration
- configuration by Ara Howard
- Config Toolkit by Designing Patterns
- configatron by Mark Bates
xml mapping
- XML-MAPPING by Olaf Klischat
- roxml by Empact
modelling/code generation
- ActiveFacts by Clifford Heath
- rgen by Martin Thiede
If you think your library should be on this page, then drop me a line!
roots
doodle itself is a descendant of an idea I had for Lisp Game (Ruby Quiz #49) (original code here). I was also influenced by the famous metakoans quiz.
contents
- introduction
- initialization: has
- defaults: default
- initial values: init
- validations: must
- conversions: from
- collectors: collect
- classes and singletons
- reflection: doodle
examples
extras
- doodle/app - command line option handling
- doodle/xml - to_xml and from_xml
- doodle/json - to_json and from_json