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This is a pretty common ruby pattern to provide a default value if none was passed. I would consider this more of a "lorem ipsum" or crappy test fixture than a

by nyargh 11y ago

This is a pretty common ruby pattern to provide a default value if none was passed. I would consider this more of a "lorem ipsum" or crappy test fixture than a smoking gun.

hobo_mark 11y ago
Sure, but I don't see anything ruby-specific about default argument values.
- nyargh 11y ago
  Using the || (or ||=) operator when assigning a local variable from an argument is ruby idiom to specify a default.