Ruby elegance

Michael
Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:15:27 -0000

Hello,
I realise that Ruby is a both powerful and elegant language, so I have a
question on how to improve my code. I am currently working on a CMS. I
decided to put some predefined and constant database rows into a table,
and that code must be run once at the initialization of the application
(in environment.rb). So below is that code:

RawTexts = 6
if RawText.find(:all).length != RawTexts do
  sfi = RawText.new
  sfi.name = ''sfi''
  sfi.save!
  conference_plan = RawText.new
  conference_plan.name = ''conference_plan''
  conference_plan.save!
  workshops_plan = RawText.new
  workshops_plan.name = ''workshops_plan''
  workshops_plan.save!
  city_map = RawText.new
  city_map.name = ''city_map''
  city_map.save!
  organizers = RawText.new
  organizers.name = ''organizers''
  organizers.save!
  partners = RawText.new
  partners.name = ''partners''
  partners.save!
  end

My question is: how to make it more elegant? There are some obvious
repetitions in the code; is it possible to omit them by some smart Ruby
mechanism?

Thanks,
Mike