Question

I have the following code. I want to use the methods for myserver1 and myserver2 and pass them the addresses the have been iterated through in the send_to_servers method. I can’t seem to do that. Please help. Unless I can have these two receive addresses on an altering basis, I won’t be able to do what I need to do. Thanks in advance.

class Addresses
  def add
    @addresses = %w([e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail])
  end

  def myserver1
    puts "Sending email from myserver1 with address #{@address}"
  end

  def myserver2
    puts "Sending email from myserver2 with address #{@address}"
  end

  def servers
    serv = [myserver1, myserver2]
  end
  #  def servers
  #    serv = (1..2).to_a       # Your list of servers goes here
  #  end


  def send_to_servers(servers)
    @addresses.each.with_index do |address, i|
      server = servers[i % servers.length]
      puts "Sending address #{address} to server #{server}"
      @address = address
    end
  end

end


a = Addresses.new
a.add
servers = a.servers
a.send_to_servers(servers)

Answer 1

It’s unclear how you might want to structure it, but here is a concise implementation that I think meets your description.

def myserver1(address)
  # Do something with address
end

def myserver2(address)
  # Do something with address
end

addresses = %w([e-mail] [e-mail] [e-mail])
servers = %w(myserver1 myserver2).cycle
addresses.each do |address|
  send(servers.next, address)
end

Apologies if I’m missing something crucial to your problem with this. Please feel free to comment on what extra functionality is required to help firm up the specification.