From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-07-18T04:57:57+09:00
Subject: Re: possibly bulletproof eval()

On 7/17/07, Giles Bowkett <gilesb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > image_file.send "#{suffix}=", file.read
Well, good, but as I do not know AR I might have missed out on the AR
specific solutions,  maybe you should check out Brad's last post.
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> That's probably the way I should do it actually. I always forget about
> send for some reason.
>
> I had to put tons of comments like "warning do not ever copy/paste
> this!" in the code near the eval. Using send would get me around that.
That for sure is a bad sign ;).
Robert
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