Common Ruby Idioms

Question

One thing I love about ruby is that mostly it is a very readable language (which is great for self-documenting code)

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Answer 1

method missing magick

class Dummy  
  def method_missing(m, *args, &block)  
    "You just called method with name #{m} and arguments- #{args}"  
  end  
end

Dummy.new.anything(10, 20)
=> "You just called method with name anything and arguments- [10, 20]"

if you call methods that not exists in ruby objects, ruby interpreter will call method called 'method_missing' if its defined, you could user this for some tricks, like writing api wrappers, or dsl, where you don;t know all methods and parameters names