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2006 Jul 18
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how to generate calculated db fields
..."page slug" i.e. a url sanitized id from
some text in my model that I want to be saved into the database and
I''m not seeing how I can do it.
The closest I''ve come to getting this to work has been...
class Page < ActiveRecord::Base
attr :name
before_save :generate_slug
def generate_slug
self.slug = self.name.gsub /\W+/, ''-''
end
end
...but this is unsatisfactory as I would like to have the slug
generated from the name without having to save to the database.
anyone have an idea of the proper Ruby way? Ideally I''d like to b...