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What are these strings called? What is squish? Ruby - senior311 - 07-19-2023
I found this code:
sql = <<-SQL.squish
UPDATE #{klass.constantize.table_name}
SET uuid = uuid_generate_v4(), updated_at = now()
WHERE id IN (#{group.map(&:id).join(',')})
AND uuid IS NULL
SQL
What is going on here? I assume this is some special kind of string delimiter. What is it called? Is it Ruby specific? What is `squish` doing?
RE: What are these strings called? What is squish? Ruby - absinthe725522 - 07-19-2023
This is a syntax for a [Here Document](
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) (`HereDoc`), which is a multiline string in Ruby.For example, this:
sql = <<-SQL
UPDATE #{klass.constantize.table_name}
SET uuid = uuid_generate_v4(), updated_at = now()
WHERE id IN (#{group.map(&:id).join(',')})
AND uuid IS NULL
SQL
Will give you an `sql` string variable whose value is literally:
UPDATE #{klass.constantize.table_name}
SET uuid = uuid_generate_v4(), updated_at = now()
WHERE id IN (#{group.map(&:id).join(',')})
AND uuid IS NULL
with all the spaces and newlines preserved.
From the HereDoc docs:
> To call a method on a heredoc place it after the opening identifier
A popular usage of that quote is when you have a long string and you don't want to write it on a single line, and hence use a HereDoc for it, but you still don't want to keep all the newline characters and white spaces that the HereDoc preserves, in which case you can just call [`squish`](
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) (which is a method added by Rails) to remove them. For example, this:sql = <<-SQL.squish
UPDATE #{klass.constantize.table_name}
SET uuid = uuid_generate_v4(), updated_at = now()
WHERE id IN (#{group.map(&:id).join(',')})
AND uuid IS NULL
SQL
Will give you an `sql` string variable whose value is literally:
UPDATE #{klass.constantize.table_name} SET uuid = uuid_generate_v4(), updated_at = now() WHERE id IN (#{group.map(&:id).join(',')}) AND uuid IS NULL
With all consequent newline characters and spaces squished into one whitespace.
RE: What are these strings called? What is squish? Ruby - philosophizations34541 - 07-19-2023
`String#squish` comes from Rails and means that resulting inline string is without multiple `\n` and `\s`.
From [docs][1]:
> Returns the string, first removing all whitespace on both ends of the
> string, and then changing remaining consecutive whitespace groups into
> one space each.
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