From: w_a_x_man <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2010-10-21T05:10:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Long conditional statements

On Oct 20, 2:39 pm, Robert Klemme <shortcut...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 20.10.2010 20:37, Courtland Allen wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Robert Klemme
> > <shortcut...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> >> Courtland, can you demonstrate a real example of your complex conditions?
> >>   Maybe there are other ways to transform them and make them less complex.
> > It happens in a variety of different ways in my code, so the more techniques
> > you guys list, the better (I hadn't known about any?).
>
> > But here's one example anyway:
>
> > if somehash[:key1].blank? or somehash[:key2].blank?
> >> or somehash[:key2].blank? or somehash[:key2].blank?
>
> >    doSomething()
>
> > end
>
> if [:key1, :key2].any? {|k| somehash[k].blank?}
>    do_something
> end
>
> Not much of an improvement though.
>

if somehash.values_at( :key1, :key2 ).index( "" )
  do_something
end