From: James Nathan <badlands_2004@...>
Date: 2010-12-24T02:03:35+09:00
Subject: Re: How to DRY code to prompt for parameters

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I like for someone to help me set the ruby up so that I may use it.

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From: RichardOnRails <RichardDummyMailbox58407@USComputerGurus.com>
Subject: How to DRY code to prompt for parameters
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 9:10 PM

I pasted code to prompt for a couple of parameter-values at
http://www.pastie.org/1399710.

Running this code under SciTE produces, for example:
Getting parms
=A0=A0=A0 Account Number: 123
=A0=A0=A0 Report=A0 Period: 456
Showing parms
=A0=A0=A0 @acct_num =3D 123
=A0=A0=A0 @acct_period =3D 456

It is excessively verbose because I couldn't figure out how to use
meta-language to specify the parameter target names.=A0 That led me to
using case statements to accept input values and then populate the
instance variables.

Can anyone suggest how I can use the instance variables as targets in
lieu of the case statements?=A0 BTW, I want to get this working with
meta-programming.=A0 I don't want to use some other approach, such as a
plug-in for getting arguments.

Thanks in Advance,
Richard

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