From: Matt Mencel <MR-Mencel@...>
Date: 2010-04-02T04:59:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Dynamic Method Calls

This did it...thanks for the assistance... :)

c.send("#{k.downcase}=", "#{v}")


Every record.attributes value is an Array, even if they are single-valued.  When I store the data into the LdapAccount model...it just stores the data as a String.  Which is fine for single-valued arrays, but the multi-valued is a problem.  I could do the following...

c.send("#{k.downcase}=", "#{v.inspect}")

Which would store every single or multi valued array in the model as a String like so...
single: ["SOMEVAL"] 
multi: ["val1","val2","val3",etc...]

But that may be more work when I want to pull that data back out at some point in the future.  Should I store the single valued attributes as a plain String and the multi-valued attributes as an Array String like above?

Something like this maybe...

LdapAccount.create(:uid => record.attributes["uid"].to_s) do |c|
  record.attributes.each_pair do |k,v|
    # v is an array of single or multi attribute values
    if v.size > 1
      c.send("#{k.downcase}=", "#{v.inspect}")
    else
      c.send("#{k.downcase}=", "#{v}")
    end
  end
end

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Matt



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Davis" <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 1, 2010 1:42:56 PM
Subject: Re: Dynamic Method Calls


On Apr 1, 2010, at 11:35 , Andrea Dallera wrote:

> Whoopsie, i'm really sorry. It should be something like:
> 
> c.send("#{k}=".to_sym, v)

.to_sym is unnecessary