I've seen all of these: is_valid is_valid? valid? Is there a preferred one? EDIT: More conditionals: has_comment has_comment? comment? was_full was_full? full? Please do add more descriptive examples.

Reputation: 12252

What is the favorable naming convention for methods or properties returning a boolean value in Ruby?

I've seen all of these:

Is there a preferred one?

EDIT: More conditionals:

Please do add more descriptive examples.

Upvotes: 3

Reputation: 1793

In favor of trying the code to be 'natural language' like, is_valid? should be most suitable for me. Lets show an example:

if @order.is_valid? @order.save end

Upvotes: 1

Reputation: 44103

I think the convention is mostly to add a '?' at the end of the method instead of 'is'

Upvotes: 8