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procer
# Procer
**NOTE: Experimental. Use it to experience what a default `to_proc`
could have been. For production code, I recommend an explicit
transformation, like the one provided by the gem `jgomo3-func`**.
A reasonable good default `to_proc` method for all objects.
Install with:
```
gem install procer
```
When you require Procer, all objects will have a default `to_proc`
method which will try to call one of the following methods, in the
given order:
- `call`
- `[]`
- `===`
Many methods which receive a block, can benefit greatly from this
because you can now pass an object to perform the block role.
Think of the Enumerable module and all its methods.
Many objects define `===`, but not `to_proc`. So they will be nicely
usable in a `case/when` expression, but not in other contexts.
This is the case of classes and ranges, which you can use in
`case/when` expressions, but they don't define `to_proc`.
Now they do define `to_proc` so they are useful in those contexts.
Examples:
```ruby
require 'procer'
[1, 2, '3', '4', 5, 6].filter(&Numeric)
# => [1, 2, 5, 6]
[-10, 100, -2, 3, 20, -33].filter(&(0..50))
# => [3, 20]
```
Also, Hashes already implement `to_proc` and that is useful
with Enumerator. We can use it as a transformation table with `map`:
```ruby
table = {
1 => 'one',
2 => 'two',
3 => 'three'
}
[3, 1, 2].map(&table)
# => ['three, 'one, 'two']
```
Sadly, Arrays, even when they have the same interface as hashes as a
function of indices, don't implement `to_proc` and so they can't be used
in the same way. Until now.
```ruby
table = ['zero', 'one', 'two']
[2, 0, 1].map(&table)
# => ['two', 'zero', 'one']
```
Alternatively, you could have used `values_at`:
```ruby
table.values_at([3, 1, 2]) # In the Hash example
table.values_at([2, 0, 1]) # In the Array example
```
But the map solution is more generic and `table` can be anything that
implements `to_proc` and not something that necessarily implements
`values_at`.
Notice that if the object implements `[]` that will tri...
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