From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-09-23T21:45:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Shortcut for "if options.key?(:full)" ?

2008/9/23 Peter Alvin <form@awebabove.com>:
> If I pass an options hash into a def, how do I easily check to see if an
> option is set?  This is how I'm doing it now:
>
> if options.key?(:some_option)
>   ...
> end
>
> Knowing Ruby, there's got to be a cleaner/better way!

If nil is not used as valid option value you can usually do

if options[:some_option]

I don't see how it can become much shorter - unless you rename
"options" and options.

Cheers

robert


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