Combine if and do in a single line?

Rails
1

Is there a way to combine if and do into a single line?

items.each do |item| if current_user.admin?
#do stuff
end

Thanks!

2

items.each { |item| item.stuff? } if current_user.admin?

3

Mario Gr wrote:

Is there a way to combine if and do into a single line?

items.each do |item| if current_user.admin?
#do stuff
end

Thanks!

Freddy A. wrote:

items.each { |item| item.stuff? } if current_user.admin?

Which you actually COULD write like this too, but I’m not sure if it
would be considered easily readable:

items.each do |item|
#do stuff
end if current_user.admin?

The {| | } and the ‘do’ syntaxes are interchangeable in all ways. More
of a Ruby question than a Rails one.

4

Jonathan R. wrote:
[…]

The {| | } and the ‘do’ syntaxes are interchangeable in all ways.

Almost. I’ve run across a couple of cases where one works and the other
doesn’t – one creates a Proc and the other doesn’t, or something like
that. But that’s vanishingly rare, and 99 times out of 100, you will
not go wrong to treat them as interchangeable.

More
of a Ruby question than a Rails one.

Yup.

Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
[email protected]

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Frederick C. wrote:

{} binds more tightly than do…end - in some cases this can lead to
your block being passed to the ‘wrong’ method:

Interesting, makes sense.

Personally, that’s one reason I don’t like making method calls without
parens, or doing anything else that relies on non-obvious
order-of-evaluation-binding just to save a couple of parens.

foo( bar {} )
or
foo( bar do
end )

will both do the same thing. Although the latter is kind of weird style,
if I need a multi-line block for bar, I’d personally just use a
temporary var instead.

result = bar do
end
foo(result)

But everyone’s got their own style, I guess. Of course you COULD use
{||} with multi-lines too, but it would also be stylistically weird in
my opinion in that case.

foo bar {|a|
stuff
more stuff
}

That’s just weird. And if I DID it, I’d still want to put parens in
around foo’s argument, which would make it even weirder looking.

Jonathan

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On May 30, 7:03 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-
s.net> wrote:

Jonathan R. wrote:

[…]

The {| | } and the ‘do’ syntaxes are interchangeable in all ways.

Almost. I’ve run across a couple of cases where one works and the other
doesn’t – one creates a Proc and the other doesn’t, or something like
that.

{} binds more tightly than do…end - in some cases this can lead to
your block being passed to the ‘wrong’ method:

def foo(x)
puts “foo #{block_given?}”
end

def bar
puts “bar #{block_given?}”
end

running foo bar {} outputs

bar true
foo false

but running

foo bar do
end

outputs

boo false
foo true

Fred