Ruby elegance

Rails
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Hello,
I realise that Ruby is a both powerful and elegant language, so I have a
question on how to improve my code. I am currently working on a CMS. I
decided to put some predefined and constant database rows into a table,
and that code must be run once at the initialization of the application
(in environment.rb). So below is that code:

RawTexts = 6
if RawText.find(:all).length != RawTexts do
sfi = RawText.new
sfi.name = ‘sfi’
sfi.save!
conference_plan = RawText.new
conference_plan.name = ‘conference_plan’
conference_plan.save!
workshops_plan = RawText.new
workshops_plan.name = ‘workshops_plan’
workshops_plan.save!
city_map = RawText.new
city_map.name = ‘city_map’
city_map.save!
organizers = RawText.new
organizers.name = ‘organizers’
organizers.save!
partners = RawText.new
partners.name = ‘partners’
partners.save!
end

My question is: how to make it more elegant? There are some obvious
repetitions in the code; is it possible to omit them by some smart Ruby
mechanism?

Thanks,
Mike

2

P.S. Erratum - there shouldn’t be “do” in the second line of the code of
course :wink:

3

Try:

RawTexts = 6

if RawText.find(:all).length != RawTexts do
[‘sfi’, ‘conference_plan’, ‘workshops_plan’, ‘city_map’,
‘organizers’, ‘partners’].each do |itm|
RawText.create(:name => itm)
end
end

There’s probably an even more elegant way, but that at least removes a
lot of the duplication.

On 6/24/07, Michael [email protected] wrote:

sfi = RawText.new
city_map.save!
mechanism?

Thanks,
Mike

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Thanks very much :wink:

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Hi –

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Michael wrote:

Hello,
I realise that Ruby is a both powerful and elegant language, so I have a
question on how to improve my code. I am currently working on a CMS. I
decided to put some predefined and constant database rows into a table,
and that code must be run once at the initialization of the application
(in environment.rb). So below is that code:

RawTexts = 6
if RawText.find(:all).length != RawTexts do

See Jeremy’s answer for shortening the code. Also you can do:

if RawText.count

instead of find(:all).length. That will save you loading all of the
records into memory.

David

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