Seth Vargo 8/26/2014

The Cleanroom Pattern in Ruby

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This article details the Cleanroom Pattern in Ruby, a technique for more safely evaluating Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs). It discusses the security and scope problems with using instance_eval, such as exposing private methods and allowing unintended method overrides, and presents the Cleanroom Pattern as a solution to isolate and control the execution environment for DSL code.

The Cleanroom Pattern in Ruby

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