update_properties updates the properties of the dash/trash

[gregory]

How convenient it would be to use update_properties to update the properties of a trash/dash

class Person < Hashie::Dash
  property :name, required: true
  property :email
  property :occupation, default: 'Rubyist'
end

p = Person.new({name: 'alice', occupation: 'dolls'})
p.update_properties({name: 'greg'})
p.name #=> greg
p.occupation #=> Rubyist

if you like it, i'll udpate the changelog and the readme.

[dblock]

I like it, however I think it should be called update_attributes! (note the name change and the bang, since it may raise exceptions).

[dblock]

We should probably rename assert_required_properties_set! to assert_required_attributes_set! to be consistent with attributes naming.

[gregory]

makes sens.
What about aliasing the two methods, since it does basically the same job?
Or you did mean rename assert_required_properties_set! in all the other places also?

[dblock]

It looks like we call things "properties" and "attributes" all over the place. We should pick one. I think it should be "attributes" since that's the external interface and also what other frameworks use.

[dblock]

Merged via 6372421, thank you.