Hello, So I have a product description field and in that product description field every time I have the @ symbol followed by a product id the following method will replace the @ sign with the products permalink in a <a href=""> format. The code below works. def product_description(product) product.description.gsub(/@(\w+)/m) do |w| ws = Product.find_by_id("#{$1}") %{<a href="#{ws.permalink}">} end end However now I want to be able to be able to give it two options, the @ and the @c. the @ sign will associate it with a product id and the @c will associate it with a category id. So I tried the following bellow but I can only get one or the other to work, I can not get them to work at the same time. def product_description(product) product.description.gsub(/@(\w+)/m) do |w| ws = Product.find_by_id("#{$1}") %{<a href="#{ws.permalink}">} end product.description.gsub(/@c(\w+)/m) do |w| ws = Category.find_by_id("#{$1}") %{<a href="#{ws.permalink}">} end end If anyone has some suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance. -- 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
Well, I finally figured it out, might as well post it just in case anyone else is trying to do the same thing. Below is the code. # converts @ signs into product links and category links def product_description(product) product.description.gsub(/@(\w+)/m) do |w| if #{$1} =~ /p(.*)/ wp = Product.find_by_id("#{$1}".delete "p") %{<a href="#{wp.permalink}">} else wt = Taxon.find_by_id("#{$1}".delete "t") %{<a href="/t/#{wt.permalink.chop}">} end end end Pretty much what this allows me to do is I can take a text field and automatically add links to words for example; this is a test, this is a link to a @p30 product</a>, and this is a link to a @t45 category</a> That way it makes my admin views a little bit cleaner and eventually I will add a rescue feature so if that product or category has been deleted i wont have any broken links through out the site. -- 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-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.