Excerpts from Gregor Hoffleit's message of Wed Jan 13 08:13:18 -0500 2010: > In order to keep before-add-message.rb readable, I was using one-line > filters like: > > message.add_label "ad apple" if message.from.email =~ > /@insideapple.apple.com/ > message.add_label "ad amazon" if message.from.email =~ > /promotio...@amazon.com/ > message.add_label "list sup" if message.subj =~ /\[sup-talk\]/ > message.add_label "list sup-devel" if message.subj =~ /\[sup-devel\]/ > > That seemed to work, somehow. Only now I realized that message.add_label > in fact only takes a single label as argument. > > Is it true that I have to change the above syntax into the much more > verbose: > > if message.subj =~ /\[sup-devel\]/ > message.add_label :list > message.add_label :"sup-devel" > end > > Removing a message from the inbox ("message.remove_label :inbox") while > applying a label leads to a similar 'code bloat'.
You could try this: [:list, :sup-devel].each { |l| message.add_label l } if condition [:inbox, :unread].each { |l| message.remove_label l } if condition Or something like this: case [message.from, message.subj].flatten.to_s when /foo/ then [:label1, :label2].each { |l| message.add_label l } [:inbox, :unread].each { |l| message.remove_label l } when /bar/ then [:label3, :label4].each { |l| message.add_label l } [:inbox, :unread].each { |l| message.remove_label l } end _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk