= Mash (Mocking Hash) http://github.com/mbleigh/mash == DESCRIPTION: Mash is an extended Hash that gives simple pseudo-object functionality that can be built from hashes and easily extended. It is designed to be used in RESTful API libraries to provide easy object-like access to JSON and XML parsed hashes. == SYNOPSIS: mash = Mash.new mash.name? # => false mash.name # => nil mash.name = "My Mash" mash.name # => "My Mash" mash.name? # => true mash.inspect # => <Mash name="My Mash"> mash = Mash.new # use bang methods for multi-level assignment mash.author!.name = "Michael Bleigh" mash.author # => <Mash name="Michael Bleigh"> == INSTALL: Gem: Mash is hosted on the GitHub gem repository, so if you haven't already: gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/ sudo gem install mbleigh-mash Git: git clone git://github.com/mbleigh/mash.git == RESOURCES If you encounter any problems or have ideas for new features please report them at the Lighthouse project for Mash: http://mbleigh.lighthouseapp.com/projects/10112-mash == LICENSE: Copyright (c) 2008 Michael Bleigh (http://mbleigh.com/) and Intridea Inc. (http://intridea.com/), released under the MIT license Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.