From: Alexandre Rosenfeld <airmind@...>
Date: 2007-04-07T14:47:57+09:00
Subject: Method constant arguments

Hi, I'm new to ruby, and I'm loving it so far.

I want to call a method with some parameters that would indicate a
state, so most of them would be only a true or false value, however
that's not very good to read when calling the method. Like this:

  def dosomework(directory, overwrite = false, use_id_as_filename =
true)

  dosomework('/', true, false)

I would like to call that function with some readable parameters,
something like this:

  dosomework('/', Overwrite, UseIdAsFilename)

I have tried array arguments and hashes, but I didn't like those
solutions. What would be the recommended way to do that in Ruby?

Thanks

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