Dynamic assignment of iterator name

I apologize if this is a foolish questions, but I am new to the language
and having trouble finding an example of what I am looking to do (if
it’s possible.)

I would like to know if there is a way to pass in the name of the
iterator to use from a variable or similar. I am looking to do
something like:

    params[:user].each_key do |attr|
      user.attr = params[:user][attr]
    end

For now I can just use a giant case statement like this:

    params[:user].each_key do |attr|
      case attr
        when "givenName"
          user.givenName = params[:user][attr]
        when "sn"
          user.sn = params[:user][attr]
        when "mail"
          user.mail = params[:user][attr]
        when "o"
          user.o = params[:user][attr]
      end
    end

But it would be nice to know if there is a cleaner way to handle this.

On 3/5/06, Leah C. [email protected] wrote:

    end
          user.mail = params[:user][attr]
        when "o"
          user.o = params[:user][attr]
      end
    end

You can use “send” for this, and using the multi-variable block on
‘each’ will save you a further step.

params[:user].each do |key, value|
user.send(“#{key}=”, value)
end