On May 13, 1:41am, Mike D. [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
I am working with a project where I am writing the following code:-
store_fb_other_information(profile_obj, “activity”, fb_activities,
provider, :activity, profile_obj.activity_information,
ActivityInformation)
#Book Information
store_fb_other_information(profile_obj, “book”, fb_books, provider,
:book, profile_obj.book_information, BookInformation)
[…]
Can I refactor the above code using metaprogramming If yes how?
Hi there. I hope this helps…
I think you could make this work several ways but in any case it looks
to me that you only need to pass to store_fb_other_information a
couple of things to make this whole thing work. For example:
store_fb_other_information(profile_obj, provider, model) # where model
could be an instance of Activity, Book, etc. if you have them
or
store_fb_other_information(profile_obj, provider, ModelName) # where
ModelName could be the class name for Activity, Book, etc. if such
models exist
or
store_fb_other_information(profile_obj, provider, ModelInformation) #
where ModelInformation could be the class name for
ActivityInformation, BookInformation, etc. which seems to exist
or
store_fb_other_information(profile_obj, provider, model_name) # where
model_name is a string such as ‘activity’, ‘book’
My preferred option would be the first one (if those models actually
exist and you instantiate them) because it would be the easiest in my
opinion. Any other option would be a slight variation on this one,
though. So say you have an activity object:
store_fb_other_information(profile_obj, provider, activity)
def store_fb_other_information(profile, provider, model)
if you need the second parameter as a string
model_name = model.class.to_s.downcase
if you need to get to fb_activities
model.send(“fb_#{model_name.pluralize}”)
you already have provider
if you need the model name as a symbol
model_name.to_sym
if you need to get to the profile_object.model_information
profile_obj.send(“#{model_name}_information”)
end