From: Guillermo <guillermo@...>
Date: 2008-06-12T06:40:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:17228] Regex name functions

Sorry if these is not the perfect place to post these.

I see a lot of situations where method_missing is overload and the
method is iterated along of a few regexp.

I think it could be interesting a regex named functions because it
will get a cleaner code and get some more speed to it in some
situations.

For example in rails framework, you could do something like these:

class ActiveRecord::Base
  def /find_by(.*)/ (:method,:args)
    return [] if String === :args[0]
    find(:all, :conditions =>  ["$1 = ?", args[0])
  end
end

It could be nice. Isn't it?


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Guillermo ��lvarez