dynamic assignment of iterator name

[Leah Cunningham]

I apologize if this is a foolish questions, but I am new to the language
and having trouble finding an example of what I am looking to do (if
it's possible.)

I would like to know if there is a way to pass in the name of the
iterator to use from a variable or similar. I am looking to do
something like:

params[:user].each_key do |attr|
user.attr = params[:user][attr]
end

For now I can just use a giant case statement like this:

params[:user].each_key do |attr|
case attr
when "givenName"
user.givenName = params[:user][attr]
when "sn"
user.sn = params[:user][attr]
when "mail"
user.mail = params[:user][attr]
when "o"
user.o = params[:user][attr]
end
end

But it would be nice to know if there is a cleaner way to handle this.

 

[Wilson Bilkovich]

I apologize if this is a foolish questions, but I am new to the language
and having trouble finding an example of what I am looking to do (if
it's possible.)

I would like to know if there is a way to pass in the name of the
iterator to use from a variable or similar. I am looking to do
something like:

params[:user].each_key do |attr|
user.attr =3D params[:user][attr]
end

For now I can just use a giant case statement like this:

params[:user].each_key do |attr|
case attr
when "givenName"
user.givenName =3D params[:user][attr]
when "sn"
user.sn =3D params[:user][attr]
when "mail"
user.mail =3D params[:user][attr]
when "o"
user.o =3D params[:user][attr]
end
end

You can use "send" for this, and using the multi-variable block on
'each' will save you a further step.

params[:user].each do |key, value|
user.send("#{key}=3D", value)
end