conditional chaining in ruby

Question

Is there a good way to chain methods conditionally in Ruby?

What I want to do functionally is

if a && b && c
 my_object.some_method_b         


        

Answer 1

I ended up writing the following:

class Object

  # A naïve Either implementation.
  # Allows for chainable conditions.
  # (a -> Bool), Symbol, Symbol, ...Any -> Any
  def either(pred, left, right, *args)

    cond = case pred
           when Symbol
             self.send(pred)
           when Proc
             pred.call
           else
             pred
           end

    if cond
      self.send right, *args
    else
      self.send left
    end
  end

  # The up-coming identity method...
  def itself
    self
  end
end


a = []
# => []
a.either(:empty?, :itself, :push, 1)
# => [1]
a.either(:empty?, :itself, :push, 1)
# => [1]
a.either(true, :itself, :push, 2)
# => [1, 2]