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Created January 17, 2011 19:36
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Proof of concept for making all ruby available to javascript.
require 'v8'
require 'openssl'
class Module
def [](name)
self.const_get(name)
end
end
class RubyTopLevel
def [](constant)
Object.const_get(constant)
end
end
V8::Context.new do |cxt|
cxt['Ruby'] = RubyTopLevel.new
cxt.eval('var cipher = new Ruby.OpenSSL.Cipher("aes-128-cbc")')
cxt.eval('cipher.decrypt')
puts cxt['cipher'] #=> #<OpenSSL::Cipher:0x1015c7f40>
end
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judofyr commented Jan 17, 2011

General solution to this problem:

"Foo::Bar".split("::").inject(Object) { |m, e| m.const_get(e) }

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