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DRY'er Object Initialization in Ruby

Asked 2009-06-11T18:34:38.707
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Is there a more 'DRY' way to do the following in ruby?

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

class Volume
    attr_accessor :name, :size, :type, :owner, :date_created, :date_modified, :iscsi_target, :iscsi_portal

    SYSTEM = 0
    DATA = 1

    def initialize(args={:type => SYSTEM})
      @name = args[:name]
      @size = args[:size]
      @type = args[:type]
      @owner = args[:owner]
      @iscsi_target = args[:iscsi_target]
      @iscsi_portal = args[:iscsi_portal]
    end

    def inspect
      return {:name => @name,
              :size => @size,
              :type => @type,
              :owner => @owner,
              :date_created => @date_created,
              :date_modified => @date_modified,
              :iscsi_target => @iscsi_target,
              :iscsi_portal => @iscsi_portal }
    end

    def to_json
      self.inspect.to_json
    end

end

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 class Volume

  FIELDS = %w( name size type owner iscsi_target iscsi_portal date_create date_modified)
  SYSTEM = 0
  DATA = 1
  attr_accessor *FIELDS

  def initialize( args= { :type => SYSTEM } )
    args.each_pair do | key, value |
      self.send("#{key}=", value) if self.respond_to?("#{key}=")
    end
  end

  def inspect
    FIELDS.inject({}) do | hash, field |
      hash.merge( field.to_sym => self.send(field) )
    end.inspect
  end

 end
answered 2009-06-11T19:46:46.817

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