From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-11-08T10:54:43+09:00
Subject: Re: can you rubyfy this?

Hi --

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Boris Schulz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I often read something about code being "rubystyle" though I am not exactly 
> sure what it means. Maybe someone can help me out and put the couple of 
> lines below into a typical ruby style?
>
> greets, B.
> - - - - - - - - - - -
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> require "rexml/document";

Lose the semi-colons :-)

> require "id3lib";
> include REXML;
> include ID3Lib;
>
> doc = Document.new File.new("collection.nml")
>
> entrys = doc.elements.to_a("//ENTRY")
> entrys.each{|node|
>    file = node.elements["LOCATION"].attributes["DIR"] +

Indentation is normally/traditionally two spaces.

You can get a good sense of traditional style from (most of :-) the
code in the standard library.


David

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