From: Harold Hausman <hhausman@...>
Date: 2006-08-28T22:28:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie : assign a value to a variable...

On 8/28/06, Nicolas Blanco <slainer68@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> This is really a newbie question...
>
> Here is the simple code...
>
> if @params[:per_page].nil?
>       per_page = 20
>     else
>       per_page = @params[:per_page]
> end
>
> Is there a better way to do this (put the parameter in the variable if
> the parameter is not null, otherwise put 20) ?
>

#untested:
per_page = (@params[:per_page] or 20)
#The theory is that if @params[:per_page] is nil, it'll return false,
and the 'or' will kick in.

> Thanks...
>

You're welcome.

> Nicolas
>
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>

hmmm,
-Harold