From: Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@...>
Date: 2007-07-26T00:24:58+09:00
Subject: Re: A question of style...

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On 7/25/07, Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just had a funny thing happen.
> I've got a bunch of classes that take a url for their initialize
> methods, and do a little cleaning on the url, just in case.
>
> I was setting them all up like this
> @url = "http://localhost:1948/"
> @one = pageOne(@url)
> @two = pageTwo(@url)
> @three = pageThree(@url)
>
> Because of the housekeeping & pass-by-reference being standard, @url
> ended up getting longer and longer, and strange and stranger.
>
> I know a dozen fairly easy ways of solving this problem, but my
> question is, what is the _right_ way to solve it in ruby?
>
> I could easily do this in the SuperPage class that all the pages
> inherit from, but it seems a tad awkward.  Then again so do some of
> the other ideas I have.
>
> def initailize(url)
>   @url=cleanURL(url.clone)
> end


It looks like your page* and cleanURL methods are in the same class as the
one you're initializing?  If this is the case why not just access @url
directly in the methods, and avoid passing it to them entirely?

Thanks,
>         Kyle
>
>


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