Question

I have a method is_numeric? which checks if a string is numeric.

I would like to print out the string to the console as part of a sentence, if the string is numeric I would like to surround it in ' marks.

At present I have something like this…

def i_hate_james_blunt_this_much(how_much)
    if how_much.is_numeric?
        puts "a hate james blunt this much : '" + string + "'\n"
    else
        puts "a hate james blunt this much : " + string + "\n"
    end
end

but I am sure ruby has some syntactic sugar to make it look sweeter, anyone?

Answer 1

How about:

output_string = "a hate james blunt this much : "
output_string += how_much.is_numeris? ? "'#{string}'" : string