From: Justin Bailey <jgbailey@...>
Date: 2006-05-04T06:06:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Immediate if method

Just use the "ternary" if operator. In Ruby, all values except nil are
considered "true" in conditions. So you could write:

statusbar_text = condition ? "true text" : "false text"

The "if" statement actually "returns" a value, so a more verbose way
to write it would be:

statusbar_text = if condition
                           "true text"
                         else
                            "false text"
                         end

Hope that helps.