Assign

This will allow you to use any method inline with multiple assignment. This is a feature request for the Ruby language #11690

Credit to Nobuyoshi Nakada for the initial implementation design.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'assign'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install assign

Usage

hash = {}
a, b, hash.assign.update, c = [:a, 2, {hash: :example}, nil]
hash
# => {hash: :example}

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/danielpclark/assign. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Daniel P. Clark

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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