Help with ? yield :

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Hello,

I'm new to Ruby and Rails, and I'm learning at the same time I'm reading
books and following some threads on the web, and of course,
experimenting ...

What's the meaning of this: ?

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       session[:auth] ? yield : (
       session[:intended_action] = action_name
       session[:intended_controller] = controller_name
       flash[:notice] = 'You need to be logged in to access this panel'
       session_update_time
       all_ok = 0
       render(:template => 'login/index'))

I understand what it does, but not what means:

? yield : ( ... some code ...)

thanks!

raimon
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? is the equivalent to 'if' kinda.. For example

a = 10
if a == 10 then <something> else <something else> end

is the same is

a == 10 ? <something> : <something else>

Hope that helped.

Regards,
Lee

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Raimon Fs wrote:

I understand what it does, but not what means:

? yield : ( ... some code ...)

foo ? bar : baz
is equivalent to
if foo then bar else baz end

HTH,
Sebastian

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4

so ? : is normally called the trinary operator, and is common to a
bunch of languages (C, Ruby, Javascript, etc ad nauseum).

In ruby,

a?b:c

is shorthand for

if a
b
else
c
end

( not so much in C, since if statements don't have values in C )

So session[:auth] ? yield : ( ... ) either yields to a block passed by
the calling function, or executes the code defined in (...), depending
on whether session[:auth] is truish (not false or nil).

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On Dec 3, 1:56 pm, Raimon Fs <co...@montx.com> wrote:

Hello,

I'm new to Ruby and Rails, and I'm learning at the same time I'm reading
books and following some threads on the web, and of course,
experimenting ...

What's the meaning of this: ?
--------------------------------------

       session[:auth] ? yield : (
       session[:intended_action] = action_name
       session[:intended_controller] = controller_name
       flash[:notice] = 'You need to be logged in to access this panel'
       session_update_time
       all_ok = 0
       render(:template => 'login/index'))

I understand what it does, but not what means:

? yield : ( ... some code ...)

thanks!

raimon
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Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

5

thanks to all !!

now is clear!

Raimon

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