From: "Brian Schröder" <ruby.brian@...>
Date: 2005-05-25T06:06:44+09:00
Subject: Re: new article

On 24/05/05, pat eyler <pat.eyler@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for posting about my own article, but I'm interested in feedback,
> recommendations for future topics, etc.  IBM has just published an
> article I wrote about doing test first development with Ruby:
> 
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/os-dw-os-ruby1-i.html
> 
> (sorry, you need to sign in (free account) to read it).
> 
> I've got an opportunity to do some more writing for them (how much
> more depends on how well received/popular the articles are), and I'd
> love to get some feedback from the community about what kinds of
> Ruby things I should be sending their way.
> 
> --
> thanks,
> -pate
> -------------------------
> We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because
> they want to know something else, and would therefore only
> misunderstand what we said
> - the Raven   (George MacDonald, Lilith)
> 
> 

Just started with your article, and I wonder why you build a
constructor that tests for object classes, why not simply call .to_s
on the argument?

class T
 attr_reader :key

 def initialize(key)
   @key = key.to_s
  end
en

[T.new(1).key, T.new("1").key, T.new([1]).key]  => ["1", "1", "1"]

best regards,

Brian

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