From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2004-06-10T13:42:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Active Record 0.8.3: Modules, mapping, and transactions

On Thursday, 10 June 2004 at 12:46:09 +0900, John W. Long wrote:
> David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> >* Create new Active Record objects by setting the attributes through a  
> >block. Like this:
> >
> >    person = Person.new do |p|
> >      p.name = 'Freddy'
> >      p.age  = 19
> >    end
> 
> Why is the better than:
> 
> person = Person.new(
>     'name' => 'David',
>     'age' => 12
> )
> 

Maybe because you have more freedom to do complex operations like this:

> >    person = Person.new do |p|
> >      p.name = 'Freddy'
         ... code here to compute age
> >      p.age  = age
> >    end
>

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Jim Freeze
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