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Ruby Ruby Objects and Classes Build a Bank Account Class Part 3: Keeping Our Balance

4Ctech Admin
4Ctech Admin
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Posted by 4Ctech Admin
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Question about balance method

Is it better to create the balance method or to simply update the balance as we add each transaction?

1 Answer

J Scott Erickson
J Scott Erickson
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J Scott Erickson
J Scott Erickson
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I would have the actions ( deposit / withdraw ) update the balance themselves. Although you could have a method like so.

def balance( amount, action )
  case action
  when 'deposit'
    @balance = @balance + amount
  when 'withdraw'
    @balance = @balance - amount
  end
end

This is a pretty rudimentary implementation. There would be all sorts of things you might want to do here like validate that amount is a fixnum with two decimals, make sure that 'action' is either withdraw or deposit.