A very lightweight dependency injection container for Ruby.

It born from a real need in one of my current projects (at Locaweb). I’m only scratching our itch. If you have the same itch, join us!

Hey Jim Weirich, thanks for initial code and inspiration. You are the man!

onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/DependencyInjectionInRuby.rdoc

gem install syringe --pre -s http://gemcutter.org

# on application bootstrap
container = Syringe::Container.new
container.register(:service_uri) { |container| 'http://services.syringe.org/api' }
container.register(:service_consumer) { |container| ServiceConsumer.new(container[:service_uri]) }

...

# anywhere in the code
puts container[:service_uri]   # http://services.syringe.org/api
puts container.service_uri     # http://services.syringe.org/api

# on application bootstrap
default_container = Syringe::Container.default
default_container.register(:service_uri) { |container| 'http://services.syringe.org/api' }

...

# in some class
class ServiceConsumer
  inject :service_uri   # it will create a new method and instance variable with that name
end

...

# anywhere in the code
service_consumer = ServiceConsumer.new
puts service_consumer.service_uri   # 'http://services.syringe.org/api'

github.com/leandrosilva/syringe/tree/master/spec

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