Like: before_filter do
result = test? unless result return f1 && ( action_name !="show" || f2 ) end end That's playing some "ruby golf" , you can pull that apart to make it as readable as you want ( honestly I actually perfer 'and' and 'or' but that would result in some more ()s ). On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1 September 2015 at 15:43, Stewart Mckinney <lordma...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I don't see any reason why not to wrap something like this in a > > before_filter block/lambda. That way you avoid the silly function name, > and > > I wouldn't consider that coupling. > > I am not entirely sure what you mean, can you show how my code > > before_filter :f1, unless: :test? > before_filter :f2, only: :show, unless: :test? > > would look in that case please > > > > > Also, Liz, I think he means "record or store the relevant information in > > another format", such if the response was a large object or collection > and > > Colin only needed to know that there were more than ten, Colin might set > > @morethanten to true. > > Correct > > Colin > > > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Elizabeth McGurty <emcgur...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Colin, please show your result.. > >> > >> On Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at 9:04:59 AM UTC-4, Colin Law wrote: > >>> > >>> On 1 September 2015 at 13:29, tamouse pontiki <tamous...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Colin Law <cla...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> >> > >>> >> On 29 August 2015 at 16:08, tamouse pontiki <tamous...@gmail.com> > >>> >> wrote: > >>> >> > can you memoize the result of test? assuming it wouldn't change > >>> >> > between > >>> >> > callbacks? otherwise, write one callback and perform all the > tests, > >>> >> > including the action check for only show inside it? > >>> >> > >>> >> Yes I could do either of those but neither is aesthetically > pleasing, > >>> >> which is why I wondered whether there was a better solution. Will > >>> >> probably plump for the first as the second filter would have to be > >>> >> called something like > >>> >> f1_unless_test_and_f2_if_show_unless_test > >>> >> for it to make any sense when read as f1 and f2 are unrelated. > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > I completely agree with the lack of aesthetics. > >>> > > >>> > Since f1 and f2 are completely unrelated, except for being gated by > >>> > test?, > >>> > I'd opt for keeping their invocation separate. Temporal coupling > isn't > >>> > useful coupling. > >>> > > >>> > Sorry, I've got nothing else. :( > >>> > >>> OK, thanks. I have gone for memorising the intermediate values in the > >>> test filter as I know they are not going to change within a request. > >>> I had hoped there might be some clever way of massaging the > >>> before_filter syntax that would provide a solution but I suspect that > >>> is not possible. > >>> > >>> Cheers > >>> > >>> Colin > >>> > >>> > > >>> > Tamara > >>> > > >>> >> > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Colin Law <cla...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> >> >> > >>> >> >> Is there a more efficient way of coding this? > >>> >> >> > >>> >> >> before_filter :f1, unless: :test? > >>> >> >> before_filter :f2, only: :show, unless: :test? > >>> >> >> > >>> >> >> I don't want to call test? twice as it is not trivial. > >>> >> >> > >>> >> >> Colin > >>> > > >>> > -- > >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >>> > Groups > >>> > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > >>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send > >>> > an > >>> > email to rubyonrails-ta...@googlegroups.com. > >>> > To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com. > >>> > To view this discussion on the web visit > >>> > > >>> > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAHUC_t-iRD59RQg9GaMZEpoqHFivKLyTT3sDAZRZeXrTQe%2BBHQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > >>> > > >>> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >> email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > >> To view this discussion on the web visit > >> > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/11e790b5-0c48-47f9-ab64-c03be7a67444%40googlegroups.com > . > >> > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CA%2BCQ934yNkeZif%2B-KP_hfwg1XXewVPWP1UCdbH%2B4jEK7vdwH5g%40mail.gmail.com > . > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/CAL%3D0gLuUfZcpZmyuZxaGE%2BsjABtzSx0%3DJNo-wzZpE0U%3Dk2RPbw%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. 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