I created a scaffolded project, and there is a line that I don''t understand fully, even with the RDoc info in my listing.rhtml: <% for listing in @listings %> <td><%=h listing.send(column.name) %></td> What is the meaning of send(column.name) ? The RDoc says that it should "invoke the method name identified by symbol ..." But in this case, column.name isn''t a method name (that I''m aware of), so what is it calling or doing? Thanks Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
hi, @listing I suppose is a collection of listing where you listing represents a model in your database. assuming listing database table listings have columns id,name your model will have methods name=(val) and (#not exactly like this but something like this) "name" which will set and get the value ActiveRecord Base class will do this dynamically for you. listing.name will get value for you listing.name="xyz" will set value for you column.name above will fetch "name" for you then listing.send(column.name)=>listing.send("name")=>listing.name which will return the value for it. hope this helps. regards gaurav --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Ugh... My cut/paste in the original post left out a crucial line, and after thinking about it, I think I know what it does .... <% for listing in @listings %> <tr> <% for column in Listing.content_columns %> <td><%=h listing.send(column.name) %></td> If I understand things right, for every listing, it is grabbing the contents of each column, for each row, and placing the data into a table row. hmmmm ... sorry for the wasted bandwidth and thanks for the help. Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---