Interesting method definition in ruby
November 19th, 2007
Today, while doing some documentation on the TMail library, I found an interesting method declaration in the interface.rb file that has me stumped…
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- Mikel
@Clemens
I actually use Geoffrey’s approach in all my spec’s in addition to this little builder.
The idea of the...
- Clemens Kofler
Geoffrey Grosenbach uses another method in his screencasts sometimes.
In your user_spec.rb, you’d have the following code:module UserSpecHelper...
- Xavier Shay
Even quicker way to assign User.find to a variable: user = _
the value of the last line executed is...
- Mikel
Duncan, good point, I changed the code above. Thanks for that.
- Duncan Beevers
It might be better to use a method name like build_valid instead of just build.
This way, you could use...
- Mikel
Exactly, this method handles it if it is false or nil and always returns true or false.
Mikel