Hi everyone,
I would like to set some site-wide (global) values across my application
layout.
All these global values are stored in my Settings table.
So in my Application controller I have something like this:
#Application Controller:
before_filter :grab_settings
def grab_settings
@set = Setting.first
end
#Application Layout view
<div>
<p><%= @set.company_name %></p>
</div>
All of this works fine, though. But if the "company_name" field is
empty, than you wouldn''t see anything.
So in that case I would like to default to a other value.
I fixed that by doing the following:
<div>
<% if @set.company_name.empty? %>
<p>My company</p>
<% else %>
<p><%= @set.company_name %></p>
<% end %>
</div>
However isn''t there a better way to do this? Initially I thought I
could
do something more elegant like this:
<%= @set.company_name || "My company" %> but ofcourse, that
won''t work.
So basically I''m looking for a more polished/clean/better approach.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
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John N. wrote in post #963524:> > def grab_settings > @set = Setting.first@set.company_name ||= ''My Company''> end >Well, you could always read the Settings, then impose your own defaults inside the grab_settings method. Any code outside that method has no idea whether the value was read, or set by you. It just knows that the value is filled. -- 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-/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.
> However isn''t there a better way to do this? Initially I thought I could > do something more elegant like this:How about moving the config out of the code by using the plugin. https://github.com/cjbottaro/app_config You can put your defaults in a file default.yml and then "over-ride" with them with a separate production.yml etc etc. -- 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.
Another alternative is to just use the existing rails environment
config or initializers file(s) to store such info in memory, something
like:
$ cat ./config/environment.rb
...
APP_VALS = {
:default_company_name = ''My Company'',
}
...
$ ./script/console
...>> APP_VALS[:default_company_name]
=> "My Company"
If you wanted different vals per environment (ie test, development,
production), then you could define APP_VALS in each of those
environment config files.
Jeff
On Nov 24, 7:36 am, Owain
<owain.mcgu...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> > However isn''t there a better way to do this? Initially I
thought I could
> > do something more elegant like this:
>
> How about moving the config out of the code by using the
plugin.https://github.com/cjbottaro/app_config
>
> You can put your defaults in a file default.yml and then
"over-ride"
> with them with a separate production.yml etc etc.
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>>> However isn''t there a better way to do this? Initially I thought I could >>> do something more elegant like this: >> >> How about moving the config out of the code by using the plugin.https://github.com/cjbottaro/app_config >> >> You can put your defaults in a file default.yml and then "over-ride" >> with them with a separate production.yml etc etc. >> If you wanted different vals per environment (ie test, development, > production), then you could define APP_VALS in each of those > environment config files.Or save some time and use SettingsLogic... https://github.com/binarylogic/settingslogic -- 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.