You're going from procedural to object-oriented coding there. That's usually
fine, but what if you're doing something like a factory method

if has_no_funny_characters?(title)
  create_object(title)
else
  return nil
end

(assume you don't have activerecord and object.valid?)

Andrew

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Tim Lucas <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > if is_it_good?('apple')
> >   return it_is_awesome!
> > end
>
> Get rid of any "it_is" or "is" in boolean methods please.
>
> empty? not is_empty?
>
> So something like:
>
> def respond_to_bad_joke
>   if @apple.good?
>     eat @apple
>   else
>     throw @apple
>   end
> end
>
> A real example would be much better.
>
>
> >
>

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