From: Shaun Fanning <shaun.fanning@...>
Date: 2005-07-21T04:08:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Variable class (newb question)


On 7/20/05 12:33 PM, "David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> 
> Another possibility (but I'd have to see more of how your data is
> being passed around to know) might be some kind of serialization that
> ended up with an array of objects that knew their own class, and knew
> how to store themselves -- resulting in something like:
> 
>    questions = <some kind of deserialization of a bunch of data, maybe>
>    questions.each {|q| q.store_response }
> 
> which is, as they say, "more OO".
> 
> 
> David

Basically since the data is coming from an HTTP form post, I am able to name
the elements such that PHP will send it all back as a bunch of associative
arrays and each storeResponse method knows how to parse those arrays and how
to put the responses into the database. I need to study Rails more to see
how complex POST responses are typically sent back and parsed since I will
be using it soon, but I wanted to think through this design problem down at
the Ruby level because I am trying to learn how to "think" in Ruby first.
Thank you for all the feedback. I have learned a great deal about Ruby just
through this little thread.

Shaun