[Ruby] unless block on one line

[Laurel Fan]

On 1/26/07, ben wiseley <wiseleyb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On this topic ... is there a better way to do things like this where Contact
> is just a straight class (doesn't inherit from anything like Model)
>
>     @contact = Contact.new
>     @contact.name = params[:contact][:name]
>     @contact.email = params[:contact][:email]
>     @contact.subject = params[:contact][:subject]
>     @contact.message = params[:contact][:message]
>
> Anything like "update_attributes" for normal classes?

OpenStruct has a new method that takes a hash:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/ostruct/rdoc/classes/OpenStruct.html

so if you're willing to deal with the looseness of openstruct you can
do that. (activerecord attributes are essentially a hash too).

It shouldn't be too hard to implement yourself either:

def update_attributes(hash)
   hash.each |name, value|  do
      send ("#{name}=", value)
   end
end

I'm not sure if there's a more elegant way.  Sometimes it seems like
Ruby likes to hide things like this.

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Laurel Fan
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