From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-06-23T05:53:58+09:00
Subject: Re: eval going boom

On Jun 22, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Giles Bowkett wrote:

>> > CHALLENGE: rewrite the above code to not use eval at all. For that
>> > matter, don't even use #send.
>>
>> original_obj.attributes.each{|attr, value|
>> new_obj.update_attribute(attr.to_sym, value)}
>
> prettier:
>
> original_obj.attributes.each do |attr, value|
>  new_obj.update_attribute(attr.to_sym, value)
> end

You don't even need #to_sym :-). Note that rewrite has the side- 
effect of actually saving those attributes of new_object in the  
database, whereas the original assignments didn't. Perhaps that's OK  
though.

-- fxn