On Oct 7, 7:45 pm, Jonathan Telfer <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been working through the Depot application to get back into Rails > after a few years doing other things. While I was looking at some > functional tests earlier I started thinking about this: > > put :update, id: @user.to_param, user: @input_attributes > > why doesn't the "id: @..." part throw an exception? id: isn't a > symbol. Is this some sort of alternative method of declaring a hash?
Correct - ruby 1.9 added a json-ish alternative syntax for hash literals Fred > Is it a method call? > > It works, which is great, but I'd love to know why. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
