[ANN] polyglot 0.1.0 Released

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Clifford Heath

Polyglot version 0.1.0 has been released!

* <http://polyglot.rubyforge.org>

Allows custom language loaders for specified file extensions to be hooked into require.

For anyone who's ever needed to load non-Ruby file types, especially to implement
a fully-custom DSL (as opposed to a Ruby DSL), this gem allows you to simply require
the file-type handler, then require your file.

The file-type handler is a loader for files identified by your special filename extension.
It registers itself with polyglot, which aliases Kernel.require.

When you then require "myfile", polyglot will first attempt a normal Ruby 'require', and
if that fails, will search the Ruby load path for a filename matching any of the registered
extensions, and call the loader for that extension.

As an example, I'm building a query language called CQL. *.cql files can be loaded by a
parser which creates Ruby classes. All I have to do is:

require "cql"
require "myqueries"

and the CQL loader will load "myqueries.cql".

You might need to wait a few hours for the gem to populate into the mirrors.

Clifford Heath.
 

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