Rails - Dec 2006 - favorite code shortcuts?

Hi,
I was wondering what everyones favorite code shortcuts is?

i recently, thanks to this forum, came accross the power of constatize
and humanize. that alone cut down my long case statements that i was
writing in creating and building my instance variables to and from
views.

for example i used to have this

def getcat(category)

  case category
    when "cat1"
        @myobj = Cat1.new
    when "cat2"
        @myobj = Cat2.new
    ....
    ....
  end

now i can just do this right? this can handle all my case statements now
correct?

@myobj=category.humanize.costantize.new

also i like combining my if statements like

 if @myobj.save and category == ''somehting'' then
    do what ever
 else
    go to error paritial....works great when using validates

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