define_methods functionality

[Тіма Маслюченко]

Hi guys 

I am thinking about new feature(maybe it already exists, in thie case let me know)

Can you pelase review and provide some feedbacks, if you find it usefull of course

We can put in inside active_support

So i need define methods that return nil(or other value that is similar for all methods)

  [:title, :type].each do |name|

    define_method(name) { nil }

  end

But i am thinking about smth like

  define_methods :title, :type # and it will generate same stuff and return nill

  define_methods :title. :type, return: false # generate methods and return false

  define_methods :title, :type do

    "extra logic"

  end # generate methods and return value that return block

[Robert Pankowecki]

What is the usecase? What value does it provide ? How is it any better than ?

def title; nil; end

def type; nil; end

Maybe it is just me but I totally do not get what your are trying to achieve.

Robert Pankowecki

[Тіма Маслюченко]

In my case i have 4 methods that return nil, so explicit definition looks wierd for me. So that why i thought maybe such method will useful, at least to make code cleaner

def method1; nil; end

def method2; nil; end   vs  define_methods :method1, :method2, :method3, :method4

def method3; nil; end

def method4; nil; end

Четвер, 4 жовтня 2012 р. 14:35:50 UTC+3 користувач Robert Pankowecki написав:

[Piotr Sarnacki]

Thanks for your proposal, but it's probably too narrow use case to extend rails with it.

Also, it may look weird to do a few similar methods that just return nil, but at least it's easy to understand - if I don't know what does define_methods do, I would need to check implementation or documentation to understand this.

In such case I think even such code would be better:

%w/method1 method2 method3 method4/.each { |name| define_method(name) { nil } }

It's not much longer than define_methods that you proposed and you see what it does right way.

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