From: "cardboard42@..." <cardboard42@...>
Date: 2007-07-26T00:40:01+09:00
Subject: Re: A question of style...

On Jul 25, 11:06 am, "Kyle Schmitt" <kyleaschm...@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
>
> Thanks,
>         Kyle

I think it's more standard to use String#dup rather than clone. If all
these pages have access to the cleanURL method why not just do the dup
in there rather than passing in the copy?

Ken