Ruby: Using a not defined variable

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How can I make something like this?

1.9.3p286 :006 > defined? activated_flag
 => nil 
1.9.3p286 :007 > puts (activated_flat ? "activated!" : "no activated")

I would like to see here no activated, but instead I have:

NameError: undefined local variable or method `activated_flat' for main:Object
  from (irb):7
  from /Users/fguillen/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p286/bin/irb:16:in `<main>'

user904990 · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-28 16:57:00Z

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why not using defined?:

puts (defined?(activated_flat) ? "activated!" : "no activated")
#=> no activated

answered Nov 28, 2012 at 16:57

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fguillen · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-28 16:57:15Z

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The simplest way I have found is adding a fallback initialization like:

activated_flag ||= false

But as I'm using this variable in erb partials this fallback initialization looks ugly.

answered Nov 28, 2012 at 16:57

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mu is too short Over a year ago

Why not make the partial's caller pass everything? A partial is a method and methods have defined interfaces, if someone calls a method without supplying all the parameters that its interface demands then the caller will get the errors that they deserve.

fguillen Over a year ago

Exactly @muistooshort, and what I'm missing is the param default value functionality but for the partial definition, which would be very helpful in this case.

mu is too short Over a year ago

Unfortunately, Rails likes to pretend that partials aren't functions so you have to do it the dumb ugly way. And a similar question (which might even be a duplicate): stackoverflow.com/q/2060561/479863. Shame that partials (and ERB templates in general) aren't explicitly functions (hmm, am I reverting to Lisp in my old age? Ha!).

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