does ruby have source filters?

[Lex Williams]

I come from a perl background , and in perl there was a module called
Filter::Simple , which made possible writing code in latin ( by
transforming the code you wrote before it reached the interpreter ) , or
whatever strange preferences users might had .
Is there anything similar in ruby ?

 

[Xavier Noria]

I come from a perl background , and in perl there was a module called
Filter::Simple , which made possible writing code in latin ( by
transforming the code you wrote before it reached the interpreter ) , or
whatever strange preferences users might had .
Is there anything similar in ruby ?

Not builtin.

There are some hacks around, google for "ruby source filter".

 

[Clinton D. Judy]

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[Lex Williams]

You have to actually call it by its foreign name. Like
Ilterfay::Implesay.

What is Ilterfay::Implesay? Neither google , nor rubyforge returns any
results.

 

[Tim Hunter]

What is Ilterfay::Implesay? Neither google , nor rubyforge returns any
results.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_latin