From: Chris Carter <cdcarter@...>
Date: 2007-03-03T01:29:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie Question

On 3/1/07, Dick <rwk@americom.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Ruby.  This is the very first class I am writing and it
> doesn't seem that Ruby is designed to handle what I thought should work.
> Why doesn't the below work?
>
> class Song < ActiveRecord::Base
>   @@dcounts = []
>
>   def Song.count(difficulty, artistid)
>     @@dcounts[difficulty][artistid]
>   end
>
>   def Song.count=(difficulty, artistid, val)
>     @@dcounts[difficulty] ||= {}
>     @@dcounts[difficulty][artistid] = val
>   end
> end
>
> Song.count(1, 3547) = 10
>
> test.rb:14: parse error, unexpected '=', expecting $
> Song.count(1,3547) = 10
>                     ^
>
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>
>

You could do something like:
def Song.count=(*args)
    @@dcounts[args[0]] ||= {}
    @@dcounts[args[0]][args[1]] = args[2]
end

Song.count 1, 3547, 10


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Chris Carter
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