class HealthcarePhony::Religion

Public: Creates a Religion object for a Patient by randomly choosing a value from a YAML file.

Attributes

code[RW]
coding_system[RW]
description[RW]

Public Class Methods

new(init_args = {}) click to toggle source

Public: Initializes an EthnicGroup. Pass in hash of different parameters, currently this includes: religion_data_file - YAML file containing religion information to randomly choose from if different options than those that come with gem are desired. See religion.yml for default values.

# File lib/healthcare_phony/religion.rb, line 14
def initialize(init_args = {})
  # TODO: allow a way for caller to pass in a custom set of codes to choose from
  # TODO: allow a way for caller to pass in % blank

  data_file = if !init_args[:religion_data_file].nil?
                init_args[:religion_data_file]
              else
                "#{::File.expand_path(::File.join("..", "data_files"), __FILE__)}/religion.yml"
              end
  r_array = Psych.load_file(data_file)

  random_religion = r_array.nil? ? '' : r_array.sample

  @code = random_religion[:code]
  @description = random_religion[:description]
  @coding_system = random_religion[:coding_system]
end