[Rails] Re: Re: Add syntactic sugar for array '<<' method on my own method?

David Kahn wrote in post #977289:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Marnen Laibow-Koser
> <lists@ruby-forum.com>wrote:
>
>> >
>> > Is there a way I can write a method that uses the '<<' syntactic sugar?
>> > Been
>> > poking around and don't see clearly how to do this.
>>
>> def <<(other)
>> # whatever
>> end
>>
>
> I see, so it has to be within a class

Module, actually. But this shouldn't surprise you: it's just a method
like any other.
> and not named....

It is named. Its name is :<< .

> so if I am
> writing
> a helper method in app controller then this is weird, but now I see that
> I
> need to make a class for what I do, so thanks, my design has improved.

Yeah. Don't put logic in your controllers. And remember that you can
reopen or mix into existing classes.

Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen@marnen.org

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