{"id":2629,"date":"2009-12-24T12:01:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T16:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=2629"},"modified":"2009-12-24T12:01:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T16:01:34","slug":"holiday-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/12\/24\/holiday-wishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people object to the phrase “Happy Holidays,” so I did this instead.\n\nwishes = []<\/p>\n

If someone celebrates no holidays, we need to<\/h1>\n

make sure we have a blank array and not nil<\/h1>\n

reader.holidays_celebrated ||= []<\/p>\n

We can't lump these together because some people celebrate more than one holiday.<\/h1>\n

if reader.holidays_celebrated.include?(Christmas)\nwishes << \"Merry Christmas\"\nend<\/p>\n

It's transliterated a few different ways so try to include several<\/h1>\n

if reader.holidays_celebrated.include?(Hanukkah) || reader.holidays_celebrated.include?(\u05d7\u05e0\u05d5\u05db\u05d4) || reader.holidays_celebrated.include?(Chanukah)<\/p>\n

I think they're already a few weeks in, but whatever<\/h1>\n

wishes << \"Happy Hanukkah\"\nend<\/p>\n

if reader.holidays_celebrated.include?(Kwanzaa)\nwishes << \"Happy Kwanzaa\"\nend<\/p>\n

if reader.holidays_celebrated.include?(Festivus)\nwishes << \"Happy Festivus (for the rest of us)\"\nend<\/p>\n

This goes for everyone, but we want it at the end so the formatting is right<\/h1>\n

wishes << \"Happy New Year\"<\/p>\n

The holiday greetings:<\/h1>\n

<%= wishes.join(' and ') %><\/h1>\n<\/code><\/p>\n

That’s really not ideal. I think I’d probably prefer to iterate over a hashmap with holidays and the greetings, so that the code would be much cleaner. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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