From: Henry Maddocks <hmaddocks@...>
Date: 2013-02-11T08:15:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Equivalent to VB's "With"?


On 11/02/2013, at 9:25 AM, Joel Pearson <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> I've looked around but I couldn't find anything helpful on this,
> although I'm sure it's been covered before:
> Does Ruby have an equivalent to the "With / End With" syntax helper in
> VB? It would be quite helpful when I need to execute a series of methods
> on an object, but for various reasons (e.g. testing individual returns
> or methods which may return nil) I don't want to chain them together.
> 
> To illustrate, here's the VB syntax I'm referring to:
> 
> With my_object
>  .do1
>  .do2
>  .do3
> End With

tap?

my_object.tap do |mo|
  mo.do1
  mo.do2
  mo.do3
end

Henry