This is why I wanted to ask the group before making the pull request. As for Rafael's question -- it is no different from writing the methods out, but either is delegate. I just found that many times where I would have used delegate I ended up writing out the individual methods only to add || = "". So, I thought others might use it as well.
As for Matt's questions: (1) It's not clear (to me) how this should interact with passing multiple attributes to `delegate`: The way I wrote it all of the delegated methods passed would get the default values so: delegate :foo, :bar, :to => :person, :default_value => "" delegate :baz, :to => :person foo => "" bar => "" baz => nil (2) Also, should the default value be returned if :allow_nil is set and the delegated-to object isn't present? Yes. On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Matt Jones <al2o...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Dec 13, 2013, at 5:44 PM, Scott Johnson wrote: > > I find I often use delegate and many nil guards in my facades. Adding a > default_value option to delegate would simplify this, but I am interested > how others feel about it. > > Implementation would look something like: > > class PersonFacade > delegate :name, :to => :person, :default_value => "" > > > > It's not clear (to me) how this should interact with passing multiple > attributes to `delegate`: > > delegate :foo, :bar, :baz, :to => :person > > Also, should the default value be returned if :allow_nil is set and the > delegated-to object isn't present? > > --Matt Jones > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Scott Johnson -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
