Rails - Jun 2006 - more questions: human_name

One more question:

 Is there some way to set the human_name of a column? e.g.: human_name 
for column address1 shouldn''t be Address1 but "Address, line
1".

 If not, should I make a hash with my custom names?

 Best regards,

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ActiveRecord uses the humanize method from the Inflector module in  
ActiveSupport to convert column names to human readable form. (See  
http://rails.outertrack.com/module/Inflector/humanize) You can  
potentially override this method something like this:

   module Inflector
     def humanize_with_fixes(name)
       case name
         when ''address1''
           ''Address line 1''
         else
           humanize_without_fixes(name)
       end
     end

     alias_method :humanize_without_fixes, :humanize
     alias_method :humanize, :humanize_with_fixes
   end

I''m not sure if this is the recommended approach, but it should work.  
It might be easier to just rename your column to address_line_1!

(Note that ActiveRecord also has a human_attribute_name method you  
could override for the same purpose, but source code comments  
indicate that this method is deprecated and that ActiveRecord may  
call the Inflector directly.)

Cheers,

Pete Yandell
http://9cays.com/

On 01/06/2006, at 11:28 PM, Yannick Majoros wrote:
> One more question:
>
> Is there some way to set the human_name of a column? e.g.:  
> human_name for column address1 shouldn''t be Address1 but
"Address,
> line 1".
>
> If not, should I make a hash with my custom names?
>
> Best regards,
>
> -- 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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> B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
> Belgium
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> You can potentially override this method something like this
That seems slightly icky, (where is that code going to go?) but I  
can''t think of anything better at present. How are these custom names  
going to be used?

But also! You can change this

   alias_method :humanize_without_fixes, :humanize
   alias_method :humanize, :humanize_with_fixes

to this

   alias_method_chain :humanize, :fixes

as shown here

   http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/articles/2006/04/26/new-in-rails- 
module-alias_method_chain


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On 02/06/2006, at 1:03 PM, Michael Daines wrote:
>> You can potentially override this method something like this
>
> That seems slightly icky, (where is that code going to go?) but I  
> can''t think of anything better at present.
I never said it was a nice solution. :)
> But also! You can change this
>
>   alias_method :humanize_without_fixes, :humanize
>   alias_method :humanize, :humanize_with_fixes
>
> to this
>
>   alias_method_chain :humanize, :fixes
>
> as shown here
>
>   http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/articles/2006/04/26/new-in-rails- 
> module-alias_method_chain
Nice. I hadn''t come across that before.

Cheers,

Pete Yandell
http://9cays.com