How the access the values of this result

Ruby
1

I am getting the following as a result of a script I run.

#<USPS::Address:0x7fafdfa53b38 @zip5=“32935”, @city=“MELBOURNE”,
@address2=“1000 N WICKHAM RD”, @zip4=“8937”, @state=“FL”>

in a variable named result.

How can I access just the Address value and print it on the screen?

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Le 26/08/2011 09:33, QAS WM a écrit :

I am getting the following as a result of a script I run.

#<USPS::Address:0x7fafdfa53b38 @zip5=“32935”, @city=“MELBOURNE”,
@address2=“1000 N WICKHAM RD”, @zip4=“8937”, @state=“FL”>

in a variable named result.

How can I access just the Address value and print it on the screen?

puts result.id

JCLL

3

Le 26/08/2011 09:50, Jean-Christophe Le Lann a écrit :

puts result.id

JCLL

Sorry. That is wrong, and .id is deprecated (use .object_id).
Anyway, I am not sure what you need really

class Ups
def initialize town,guy
@town,guy=town,guy
end
end

result = Ups.new(:madrid,:diego)
puts result #Ups:0x9a46f10 <== that number ?
puts result.object_id #80885640 <== or this one ?

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On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:33 AM, QAS WM [email protected] wrote:

Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

What version/implementation of Ruby are you using? That’s a curious
inspection, none of mine label it as the address.

Anyway, that’s the address of the object in memory, not the location
you’re
sending the package, you probably want @address2.

Given that I don’t know how your object works, I can’t say for sure.
Usually
people will have a getter named the same as the variable, so you could
just
say result.address2. If not, the only think you can definitely do would
be a
violation of encapsulation, but you could say
result.instance_variable_get(‘@address2’), but I recommend finding the
actual getter (note, if you don’t know your object’s APIs, and they
aren’t
well documented, Pry is a good tool for exploring them
http://pry.github.com/).

5

I am actually trying to use this gist

and get the correct address2 for a certain address.

Not sure how to get it out from the response which comes back in the
form I provided above.

6

Here’s the relevant line:

class Address
[:firm_name, :address1, :address2, :city, :state, :zip5, :zip4].each
do |a|
attr_accessor a

…so as mentioned earlier, you can write:

result.address2

7

7stud – wrote in post #1018604:

Here’s the relevant line:

class Address
[:firm_name, :address1, :address2, :city, :state, :zip5, :zip4].each
do |a|
attr_accessor a

…so as mentioned earlier, you can write:

result.address2

The line that was creating trouble was

.standardize.inspect

and doing result.address2 was not working.

Have removed .inspect and now it works just fine.

Thanks for everyone help.

8

…and here’s a simpler example:

module Dog

class Cat
attr_accessor :address2

def initialize
  @address2 = 'hello world'
end

end

end

result = Dog::Cat.new
puts result.address2

–output:–
hello world

9

Yah. inspect() returns a String, and a String does not have an
address2() method.

10

#<USPS::Address:0x7fafdfa53b38 @zip5=“32935”, @city=“MELBOURNE”,
@address2=“1000 N WICKHAM RD”, @zip4=“8937”, @state=“FL”>

in a variable named result.

How can I access just the Address value and print it on the screen?

Just so that you know, you could also have done:
object.instance_variable_get(:@address2)

Comes handy sometimes while inspecting an object. However, as pointed by
others, you should use the API provided by the library you are using.

11

I am sorry about not asking the right question

Actually I am looking for the @address2 value.

Jean-Christophe Le Lann wrote in post #1018591:

Le 26/08/2011 09:50, Jean-Christophe Le Lann a écrit :

puts result.id

JCLL

Sorry. That is wrong, and .id is deprecated (use .object_id).
Anyway, I am not sure what you need really

class Ups
def initialize town,guy
@town,guy=town,guy
end
end

result = Ups.new(:madrid,:diego)
puts result #Ups:0x9a46f10 <== that number ?
puts result.object_id #80885640 <== or this one ?