Question

Here is a way I found out I can pass pass arguments to Symbol key of a hash.

task :test,:server do |t,args|
  puts args.server
  puts end_points[:"#{args.server}"]
end

Definition of end_points

 end_points = { :dev ==> "http://mysite.com" }

This is how I call this rake task:

rake test[dev]

Is there a cleaner way to pass args.server as key of end_points.

Answer 1

“Cleaner” is a matter of perspective, but you can write puts end_points[args.server.to_sym] if you dislike all that punctuation and just want to make the intent a bit clearer.