From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-03-29T00:13:17+09:00
Subject: Re: with block in ruby

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Mario Ruiz <tcblues@gmail.com> wrote:
> is there any way in ruby to do something like:
>
> with thisobject do
>  ....
>
>
> end

Depends on what you want to do, probably use #instance_eval e.g

irb(main):001:0> "foo".instance_eval do p size end
3
=> 3

Or you can use #tap (1.9)

irb(main):002:0> "foo".tap do |x| p x.size end
3
=> "foo"

Cheers

robert

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