From: Alex Stahl <astahl@...5.com>
Date: 2010-09-17T03:06:20+09:00
Subject: Traversing a friend graph - the ruby way?

Recently, I needed to write some code to traverse friend graphs on my
website.  Due to my C++ background, I used recursion:


def traverse(user, depth, origin=nil)
  @hi5 = Hi5fbapi.new @api_key, @secret
  if depth > 0
    friends = @hi5.get_friends(user)
    friends.delete origin if friends.include? origin
    depth -= 1
    friends.each do |friend|
      traverse(friend, depth, user)
    end
  end
end

But as I continue to learn the finer points of ruby, I can't help but
think there's a more ruby-oriented way to do this.  Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Alex