From: Andrew Stewart <boss@...>
Date: 2007-03-08T21:18:26+09:00
Subject: Re: How To Find The Name Of A Variable


On 8 Mar 2007, at 12:09, Pit Capitain wrote:
> Andy, you could try to change the way you create your line item  
> objects. Instead of storing them in separate instance variables,  
> you could store them in a Hash. Instead of
>
>   @line_item_jacket = create_line_item_jacket
>   @line_item_shirt = create_line_item_shirt
>
> you could do something like
>
>   @line_items = {}
>   @line_items[ :line_item_jacket ] = create_line_item_jacket
>   @line_items[ :line_item_shirt ] = create_line_item_shirt
>
> then you can just do
>
>   if line_item_relevant :line_item_shirt

Pit, that's a neat approach.  I'll try it.

Thank you!
Andy