[viraptor]

In your language of choice:

    static_function(db, other, arguments) { ... }
    test { static_function(fake_db, 1, 2) }

You can even omit the db in the standard case if your language allows default keyword arguments. In almost every language, a method is just a fancy static call that takes extra arguments implicitly. (Closures are poor man's objects, objects are poor man's closures...)