From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-03-27T08:32:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: Make this code better?

hmmm, class or instance variable / cached function?


Have you looked at http://rubymentor.rubyforge.org ?


Aur

On 3/27/07, Joshua Muheim <forum@josh.ch> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Another newbie question. I have the following code:
>
>   private
>   def model_obj_name
>     CountriesController.controller_class_name.underscore.sub(/_controller$/,
> '').singularize
>   end
>
> I use it quite a lot, and it's always the same, so I'd like to be
> executed only once and then stored somewhere and every following time it
> just returns this value.
>
> I thought about putting this stuff into the initialize body and creating
> an attr_accessor, but then it would be public, right? But I need it
> private...
>
> Any cool solution? Thanks :-)
> Josh
>
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