From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-12-05T05:15:03+09:00
Subject: Re: or = for a constant

Hi --

On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Bob Archer wrote:

> Hello,
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> I want to set a constant to be the value from an env variable or if that
> is not there set it to the current directory.
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> So, I am doing this:
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> WORKINGDIR = ENV['CCNetWorkingDirectory'] ? ENV['CCNetWorkingDirectory']
> : "."
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> But it doesn't seem very Ruby/DRY like.
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> Is there a better way to do this?

WORKINGDIR = ENV['CCNetWorkingDirectory'] || "."


David

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