From: Philipp Kern <trash@...>
Date: 2004-05-31T19:53:37+09:00
Subject: Re: elegant way to say "try this thing, one at a time, until condition is met"

On 2004-05-31, Dmitry V. Sabanin <sdmitry@lrn.ru> wrote:
> $counter = 0
> def cond_met
>   $counter += 1
>   $counter > 1 ? true : false
> end
>
> # algo itself, services could be an array of commands to execute
> services = %w| httpd squid sendmail |.reverse
> begin
>   serv = services.pop
>   system "echo /etc/init.d/#{serv} stop"
> end until cond_met

What's the sense in stopping only two services listed in an array which has
more elements than the two?

Bye,
phil
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