I made a small utility library named Wormhole. The library enables us to communicate between caller and callee.

Here is a simple example of use.

   1  require 'rubygems'
   2  require 'wormhole'
   3  
   4  def foo(array)
   5    array << :foo # (1)
   6    Wormhole.throw array
   7    array << :baz # (3)
   8  end
   9  
  10  result = Wormhole.catch do
  11    foo []
  12  end.return do |array|
  13    array << :bar # (2)
  14  end
  15  puts result.inspect # => [:foo, :bar, :baz]

First, the block passed to Wormhole.catch, the caller, is evaluated. The foo method, the callee, throw an array object passing through the wormhole. Then the array is caught by the last block passed to a return method. A block parameter of the block is the array. Finally, the process goes back to the point 3 after the last block ends. A return value of the foo method is returned via the return method.

By using this utility, you can participate to a depth of a complicated system from a safer position.

At the end, you can install this utility from the GitHub by using gem command like this.

   1  % sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
   2  % sudo gem install genki-wormhole

Have fun!