From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2008-04-24T23:53:39+09:00
Subject: Re: This can't be right

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Stefan Kroes
<s.a.kroes@student.utwente.nl> wrote:

>  I'm pretty new to Ruby and RoR but I'm trying to learn for a large
>  project. I wrote the following method in one of my models but it can't
>  be the right way to do this because ruby should be able to do it way
>  more concisely. Can you tell me of a better way?
>
>   def name
>     if !@name
>       property = content_properties.find_by_key('name')
>       if property
>         @name = property.value
>       else
>         @name = ""
>       end
>     else
>       @name
>     end
>   end

Here's one slightly shorter version:

    def name
      unless @name
        property = content_properties.find_by_key('name')
        @name = property ? property.value : ""
      end
      @name
    end

Hope this helps,

Lyle