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The Ruby Workshop

You're reading from   The Ruby Workshop Develop powerful applications by writing clean, expressive code with Ruby and Ruby on Rails

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838642365
Length 544 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dániel Szabó Dániel Szabó
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Akshat Paul Akshat Paul
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Peter Philips Peter Philips
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Cheyne Wallace Cheyne Wallace
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Writing and Running Ruby Programs 2. Ruby Data Types and Operations FREE CHAPTER 3. Program Flow Ruby Methods 5. Object-Oriented programming with Ruby 6. Modules and Mixins 7. Introduction to Ruby Gems 8. Debugging with Ruby 9. Ruby Beyond the Basics l 10. Ruby Beyond the Basics ll 11. Introduction to Ruby on Rails l 12. Introduction to Ruby on Rails ll Appendix

9. Ruby Beyond the Basics I

Activity 9.01: Invoice Generator

Solution

  1. Create a new Ruby file.
  2. Define the invoice_generator method and the p1 and p2 variables to be used in the program using &block and block_given?. We call the invoice_generator method and pass the product prices along with a block of code:
    def invoice_generator(p1,p2, &block)
        yield calc_discount(p1,p2) if block_given?
    end

    The invoice_generator method has a yield keyword, which will only execute the block of code and pass the product prices if the first block of code is passed.

    First, calc_discount is called and then a block code is executed, which, in turn, passes the customer details to the details method.

  3. Next, we will define the discount calculator method, calc_discount, which will calculate the discount on the products, add it to the product, and print the final price of the product. calc_discount is the method where we calculate the sum of the product prices and...
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