Question

I’m pretty sure ruby has an idiom for that.

I just have too many places in my code where I say

if (x == A) || (x == B) || (x ==C)
  do_something
else
  do_something_else
end

I know I also could do

case x
when A, B, C
   do_something
else
   do_something_else
end

but I prefer using if else if there’s a nice idiom to make it more succinct.

Answer 1

You can tidy up your case statement a bit more like this

case x
when A, B, C then do_something
else do_something_else
end

or if it is a repeating pattern, roll it into a method on Object

class Object
  def is_one_of?(*inputs)
    inputs.include?(self)
  end
end

then use it as

if x.is_one_of?(A, B, C)
  do_something
else
  do_something_else
end