Ruby switch like idiom

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Hey,

I have recently started a project in Ruby on Rails. I used to do all my projects before in Python but decided to give Ruby a shot.

In the projects I wrote in Python I used a nice little technique explained by the correct answer in this post:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/277965/dictionary-or-if-statements-jython

I use this technique due to Python not having a native switch function and it also get rid of big if else blocks

I have been trying to do recreate the above method in Ruby but can't seem to quite get it.

Could anyone help me out?

Thanks

Eef

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