From: Jay Levitt <jay@...>
Date: 2007-08-29T14:35:07+09:00
Subject: Re: idiomatic way to assign if not nil?

On Aug 28, 10:31 pm, "Logan Capaldo" <logancapa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/28/07, Jay Levitt <j...@jay.fm> wrote:
> > Yeah, it was more that I was doing a bunch of them at once to deal
> > with Rails' attr_protected feature while in a unit test, so I ended up
> > writing:
> > user.login = options[:login] if options[:login]
> > user.password = options[:password] if options[:password]
> > user.other = options[:other] if options[:other]
>
> > Felt kinda repetitive.  I guess I could DRY that up in an eval loop.
>
> Is this not what #attributes= is for?
> user.attributes = options

Nope!  That won't assign any attributes that are attr_protected.