Laravel flexible request

flexible-request.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Requests;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;

class ProjectBillRequest extends FormRequest
{
    /**
     * Determine if the user is authorized to make this request.
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    public function authorize()
    {
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function rules()
    {
        if($this->isMethod('post')) {
            return [
                "description" => "required|min:10",
                "status" => "required|min:3"
            ];
        }
        
        return [
            "description" => "min:10",
            "status" => "min:3"
        ];
    }
}

There is a more simplified version:

public function rules()
{
    $required = $this->method() == 'post' ? 'required|' : '';

    return [
        "description" => $required . "min:10",
        "status" =>  $required . "min:3"
    ];
}

Interesting.
There's less code, yet I'm not sure that it's simpler (at least for me).
takes a little longer to grock.