From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2007-01-05T19:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I do this better?

On 05.01.2007 10:30, Jean Helou wrote:
> actually this seems to work too :
> def foo(1)

You want "def foo(i)" here.

> @cache[i]||=some_method_that_takes_long_time(i)
> end

That's what I'd do.  And then there is also memoize, which implements 
this pattern:

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/memoize/

Kind regards

	robert