From: Henon <me@...>
Date: 2005-04-30T06:29:28+09:00
Subject: Re: method_missing question

Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> Currently, I have a class that has a bunch of methods (that a GUI does
> a callback on) that are like
> 
>   def menu_zoom_100_activate
>     @display.zoom(100)
>   end
> 
>   def menu_zoom_250_activate
>     @display.zoom(250)
>   end
> 
>   def menu_zoom_500_activate
>     @display.zoom(500)
>   end
> 
> Could I use #method_missing to make this better?
> 
> 
> 

you could do that like this:

def method_missing(methodname, *args)
	if methodname=~/menu_zoom(\d+)_activate/
		@display.zoom($1.to_i)
	else
		super
	end
end