5 Ruby Tips You Probably Don’t Know
5 Ruby Tips You Probably Don’t Know
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In this article we’re going to explore the following topics:
- assigning the rest of an
Arrayto a variable - array destructuring in block arguments
Hash#default_procas default valueHEREDOCand method chaining- unary operators for non-numeric objects
Assigning the rest of an Array to a variable
When destructuring an array, you can unpack and assign the remaining part of it to a variable using the rest pattern
Array destructuring in block arguments
It’s possible to use the Array Destructuring mechanism in ruby blocks
produces
key1: value1
key2: value2
key3: value3
key4: value4
Here, each sub-array is destructured and the first and second entry values are assigned to the key and value block arguments.
Hash#default_proc as default value
A Hash.new can take a block that will be used to set the default value of a key
But what if we want that all this default value is propagated through all the entries and subentries of a hash ?
It’s possible to propagate the default block passed as argument of the Hash.new method to all the sub-entries of the freshly returned hash.
To do so we can use the Hash#default_proc method that contains the block passed as argument of the Hash.new method
Here, a new hash that takes a block as argument — which is used to define the default value of a new entry — is assigned to the layers variable.
When layers[:layer_1] is called without an explicit assignment, then the block passed as argument of the layers hash is executed.
This block is executed as following
In effect, the default_proc executes the block passed as parameter of the layers hash.
It’s same for the layers[:layer_1][:layer_2].
And then the layers[:layer_1][:layer_2][:layer_3] contains an assigned value. So the default_proc method is not called.
The default_proc method of the layers hash is propagated as default value of any new entries and sub-entries of this hash.
Inception…
HEREDOC and method chaining
As an HEREDOC is a multi-line string syntactic sugar, then it’s possible to chain methods on it.
In this example, we remove the trailing spaces and \n from an SQL query
Note that the squish method is defined within the Rails framework.Unary operators for non-numeric objects
It’s possible to implement unary operators to an object by defining the [email protected] and [email protected] methods within the class declaration
produces
false
true
Voilà!
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