Hi First let me mention that i am new to rails. In my application there is a form for entering product details for bidding. I have a view and all the data is entered into a form. In the database there is a unique_id which is generated for each product(this is for internal use within the company). The unique id is generated using data from 2 fields and another generated number. all 3 needs to be concatenated. My questions: 1) where is the best place to perform the operation. I assume it is in the controller 2) How do i do it. How do I take the form data and concatenate all the values, so that the unique id is inserted into the database. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
you can handle this all in the model since i don''t know your attribute names, i''ll just use simple ones, foo, bar and the unique id attribute will be unique_ident class Model < AR::Base before_create :generate_unique_ident def generate_unique_ident unique_ident = foo + bar + self.generate_some_number end private def self.generate_some_number ... end validates_presence_of :foo validates_presence_of :bar end then just save your model as usual On 3/29/07, max <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > Hi > First let me mention that i am new to rails. > In my application there is a form for entering product details for > bidding. I have a view and all the data is entered into a form. > In the database there is a unique_id which is generated for each > product(this is for internal use within the company). The unique id is > generated using data from 2 fields and another generated number. all 3 > needs to be concatenated. > My questions: > 1) where is the best place to perform the operation. > I assume it is in the controller > 2) How do i do it. How do I take the form data and concatenate all the > values, so that the unique id is inserted into the database. > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Is this best done in model than in controller? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Is this best done in model than in controller? Is it possible to retrieve some data from the db according to a field? Eg: let us assume foo, bar and unique_ident as above. now bar contains a primary key of a table which contains actual data. foo = 137874 bar = 1 unique_ident = ss137874, because according to table bar_table id value 1 ss 2 dd now can a retrieve the value according to the value of bar which is given in the view? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
sorry, you''ve confused me. foo and bar where my mock columns on your model. i don''t understand where this bar table is coming from. perhaps you need to provide more info on your situtation. On 3/29/07, max <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > Is this best done in model than in controller? > Is it possible to retrieve some data from the db according to a field? > > Eg: let us assume foo, bar and unique_ident as above. > now bar contains a primary key of a table which contains actual data. > foo = 137874 > bar = 1 > unique_ident = ss137874, because according to table > bar_table > id value > 1 ss > 2 dd > > now can a retrieve the value according to the value of bar which is > given in the view? > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
ok. let me start from the begining. 3 fields of concern here are product_code, product_category, unique_ident. In the view product_category is selected through a dropdown. Its values are integer, which is id of the category table. given below is sample values of category table categories id category category_code 1 electronics el 2 cars ca now, sample values input by the user product_code : 333 product_category : 2 in this case the unique_ident should be product_code + the category_code of the corresponding product_category i.e: ca333 I hope i am clear this time -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
well, what you could do in this case is just make it a ''psuedo attribute'' and you don''t even have to store it in the database class Product def unique_ident category.category_code + product_code end end so in this example say you have products id: 1 product_code: 333 category_id: 2 categories id: 2 category: cars category_code: ca p = Product.find(1) p.unique_ident # => "ca333" On 3/30/07, max <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > ok. let me start from the begining. > 3 fields of concern here are product_code, product_category, > unique_ident. > In the view product_category is selected through a dropdown. Its values > are integer, which is id of the category table. > given below is sample values of category table > categories > id category category_code > 1 electronics el > 2 cars ca > > now, sample values input by the user > product_code : 333 > product_category : 2 > > in this case the unique_ident should be product_code + the category_code > of the corresponding product_category > i.e: ca333 > > I hope i am clear this time > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---