From: Timothy Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-03-27T08:33:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: Make this code better?

Joshua Muheim 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
>
>   
What about this?

private
  def model_obj_name
    @name ||= CountriesController.controller_class_name.underscore.sub(/_controller$/,
'').singularize
  end