Once a jobbing developer I have since moved into Management. I continue with a couple of hobby projects to ensure I don't go mad. I focus on iOS/Swift and ROR.
The reason why I prefer to keep declaration and conditionals separated is because it helps a bit with reading the code and I've found more than once that it is not always understood!
I've seen teammates trying to "fix" it as if user == User.find(params[:id]) because they weren't understanding I was just assigning something! Besides, Ruby emits a warning in this case... so it is not clear at all even when you can do it.
The difference with the case of the constants is that the constants declaration doesn't usually involve your applications's logic, so it is easier to reason about and less "dangerous".
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I do this...
if user = User.find(params[:id])puts "User is #{user.name}"
end
All the time!
Does this make me a bad person?
xD not at all.
The reason why I prefer to keep declaration and conditionals separated is because it helps a bit with reading the code and I've found more than once that it is not always understood!
I've seen teammates trying to "fix" it as
if user == User.find(params[:id])because they weren't understanding I was just assigning something! Besides, Ruby emits a warning in this case... so it is not clear at all even when you can do it.The difference with the case of the constants is that the constants declaration doesn't usually involve your applications's logic, so it is easier to reason about and less "dangerous".