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Created December 23, 2011 18:32
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allowing objects to specify exception types
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gistfile1.rb
class Share
def call
list.each do |address|
begin
referral = new_referral(address)
referral.save
rescue referral.invalid_exception_type
@unsaved << referral
end
end
end
def new_referral(address)
Referral.new(address)
end
end
class Referral
class Invalid < StandardError; end
def invalid_exception_type
Referral::Invalid
end
end
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My goal with this is to reduce the references to external objects. There is only 1 reference to the Referral class from within Share. If that changes, the replacement merely needs to implement save and invalid_exception_type

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avdi commented Dec 23, 2011

That"s interesting. I will ponder this.

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avdi commented Dec 24, 2011

See https://gist.github.com/1516514 for an alternative

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