From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2011-08-11T00:59:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Passing multiple parameters



On Aug 10, 11:10 am, Avantec Van <abhil...@srishtisoft.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   I have a method & i wanna pass around 25 parameters to it and i hav to
> make string from that, as follows...
>
> def method1(email, b_day, b_month, b_year, gender, f_name, l_name,
> mdl_name, title, country,  .......)
>
>     params =
> "email=#{email}&birth_day=#{b_day}&birth_year=#{b_year}.............."
>
> end
>
> it looks very odd when passing these many parameters. Is there any other
> option that I can mention only mandatory args in the method & remaining
> all are in single argument or something like that?

Use options hash.

  def method1(options)
    email  = options[:email]
    b_day = options[:b_day]
    ...