Geplaatst door Michiel de Mare do, 21 feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT
I always have an irb or rails console session open, and I love methods to see what an object is capable of, but it certainly returns an exceptional amount of unsorted crap, especially in Rails.
Therefore, mymethods:
class Object
def mymethods
(methods - Object.instance_methods).sort
end
end
(1..2).methods.size # => 150
(1..2).mymethods.size # => 46
Geplaatst door Michiel de Mare wo, 20 feb 2008 11:12:00 GMT
On June 5th the third edition of the RubyEnRails conference will take place in Amsterdam. Last year, about a third of the sessions were in English. It’s not yet possible to register, but we’re looking for speakers.
If you’re interested in giving a presentation about a cool Rails or Ruby subject, let us know.
Some suggestions:Use the rubyenrails2008(ape)rubyenrails.nl email-address to apply.
Geplaatst door Michiel de Mare wo, 20 feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT
It took me a while before I discovered the accepted Ruby idiom to find the bigger of two values. I expected a method in Kernel or perhaps in Comparable. Instead, the Ruby Way is to create an array and ask the maximum value in the array:
[x,y].max
at_most and at_least:
total_time / total_tries.at_least(1)
Implementation too trivial to list.
Geplaatst door Michiel de Mare di, 19 feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT
Hash has an invert-method, but it often happens that you’re dealing with a hash with arrays as values. Naturally, you don’t want arrays as keys – you want every element in the array to turn into a key, with an array of all original keys with that element as the value.
{1 => [3,4]}.inv_multi
# => {3=>[1], 4=>[1]}
{1 => [3,4,5,6], 2 => [3,4], 4 => 11}.inv_multi
# => {5=>[1], 11=>[4], 6=>[1], 3=>[1, 2], 4=>[1, 2]}
class Hash
def inv_multi
# there's inject! again. daily method #5
inject!({}) do |h,(k,v)| # Is this obvious? If not, say so!
# this lambda binds h and k.
l = lambda {|x| (h[x] ||= []) << k}
if Array === v
v.each(&l)
else # value doesn't have to be an array
l[v]
end
end
end
end
Geplaatst door Michiel de Mare ma, 18 feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT
Ruby 1.9 has Object#tap. Danny introduced Object#with a long time ago. Then there’s Object#instance_eval.
Do these methods have anything in common, except for the inscrutability of their names?
It turns out that they do. These methods fall in the family of methods that:ObjectSo it may seem amazing that there are as much as three methods in this category. Actually, there’s even a fourth!
You see, even within these strict specs there are two decisions that we have to take.self? Is it the object? Or is it unchanged (so we need to pass on the object as an argument)?tap: returns result, same self in blockwith: return self, same self in blockinstance_eval: returns result, different self in block.switch: returns self, different self in block.Let’s see these methods in action!
Lees verder...Geplaatst door Michiel de Mare vr, 15 feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT
It’s Friday so we’ll keep it short.
[String,Symbol].each{|c|c.class_eval {alias +@ to_sym}}
Is it a Symbol? Is it a String? Who gives a damn!
hash[+key]
Geplaatst door Remco van 't Veer do, 14 feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT
In an earlier daily method an alias is created for a class method. This is a bit tricky since the Module#alias_method method only operates in instance methodes. Fortunately a class is an instance of Class so we can use that instance as a context to use alias_method.
To extend an object instance we use the class<< notation. This adds a singleton/eigen/virtual/meta-class to the given instance which you can use to add methodes. Inside a class definition the self object points to the instance of the class begin defined. This allows us the do the following:
class Foo
class << self
alias_method :neu, :new
end
end
This Foo class can now be instanciated using neu (note, new is just a class method). But this class<< stuff inside a class is a bit messy. I prefer using the following extension to Object:
class Object
def self.alias_class_method(new_name, old_name)
meta = class << self; self; end
meta.send :alias_method, new_name, old_name
end
end
Now we can write:
class Foo
alias_class_method :neu, :new
end
For more information about eigenclasses see the discussion Nutter and Lam had on Ruby-core.
Geplaatst door Michiel de Mare wo, 13 feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT
You all knowflatten. Flatten takes an array and removes all structure from it. But sometimes you’ve got an array of arrays of arrays, and want to turn it into an array of arrays. What we need is a flatten-light: mjoin
module Enumerable
def mjoin
inject!([]) {|memo,x| a.each {|x| memo << x}}
end
end
inject!).
When do you use this? Whenever you want to use map but you don’t always want to return exactly one value, and some or all of the values are arrays (which means you can’t use flatten).
Does that sound exceedlingly rare? In fact, it is a very common structure. A table is an array of arrays, and a join is an operation which returns zero or more results per row. And this also explains the name! (join, of course, is already taken – mjoin was inspired by this article).
I plan to talk more about using the table datastructure in the near future.
Geplaatst door Remco van 't Veer di, 12 feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT
Working with ActiveRecord it often bothers me I need to write each after doing a find-all. I can give find a block but is just ignored without any warning.
So today no new method but the removal of a method!
class ActiveRecord::Base
def self.find_with_block_sensitivity(*args)
r = find_without_block_sensitivity(*args)
[r].flatten.each {|v| yield v} if block_given?
r
end
class << self
alias_method :find_without_block_sensitivity, :find
alias_method :find, :find_with_block_sensitivity
end
end
Now, instead of:
Article.find(:all).each {|article| puts article.title}
we can write:
Article.find(:all) {|article| puts article.title}
Look ma! No each! Also works for single object results.
Geplaatst door Michiel de Mare ma, 11 feb 2008 08:52:00 GMT
This is a Dutch blog, and therefore we love to quote Dutch computer scientists:
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsgar Dijkstra
Seven pieces of Java code and the alternative in Ruby:
if(foo != null) {
bar(foo);
} else {
bar("");
}
bar(foo || "")
