From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2006-08-03T22:17:38+09:00
Subject: Re: best way to assign args ???

The following does what you want in one pass:

INP = ["DEBUGG=true", "auto=true", "dummy=empty",
"files=/Users/yvon/MacSOUP_proxad/proxad, /Users/yvon/MacSOUP_eclipse/ 
eclipse, /Users/yvon/MacSOUP_news.individual.net/individual"]

@h = {}
INP.each do |a|
    k,v = a.split("=")
    case v
       when /true/ then @h[k] = true
       when /false/ then @h[k] = false
       when /,[\s]*/ then @h[k] = v.split(/,[\s]*/)
       else @h[k] = v
    end
end

It is easily extend to other cases if necessary. Whether or not it is  
better or more Ruby-ish is for you to decide.

Hope this helps.

Regards, Morton

On Aug 3, 2006, at 6:35 AM, Une b�vue wrote:

> on Mac OS X using launchd i'm only able to pass args like that :
>
> ["DEBUGG=true", "auto=true", "dummy=empty",
> "files=/Users/yvon/MacSOUP_proxad/proxad,
> /Users/yvon/MacSOUP_eclipse/eclipse,
> /Users/yvon/MacSOUP_news.individual.net/individual"]
>
>
> then for the time being i do :
>
> @h={}
> $*.each {|a| k,v=a.split("="); @h[k]=v}
>
> and, afterwards :
>
> @h['DEBUGG']=(@h['DEBUGG']=="true")
> for bool, and for array :
>
> @h['files']=@h['files'].split(", ")
>
> i don't like that because i have to know, a priori, the types and  
> names
> of the args.
>
> a better solution more rubyish ???