Pivotal Labs’ blog provides one of the most consistent sources of quality code writing in my RSS reader. Whether in their Daily Standup posts, or their longer-form articles, I’m constantly finding tidbits of quality Ruby and JS code. A couple weeks ago, Jeff Dean wrote a solid piece on breaking out your form logic in Rails models and controllers. If you’re a Ruby developer, you should read the post in entirety. What most stuck out to me, though, was a little syntactic sugar that I hadn’t enountered before for stating your public attributes:

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ATTRIBUTES = [:name, :email, :terms_of_service, :anti_bot_question_id, :anti_bot_answer, :ip_address]

attr_accessor *ATTRIBUTES

I’ll definitely be adding that to my shortcut list.