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I have a class which stores as one of its attributes a day of the week as an integer (0-6, 0=Sunday, standard UNIXy values). I want, obviously, the views to show the weekday name and the forms to provide a drop-down with the weekday names. Essentially it''s a vrtual attribute whose value is the localized weekday name, which maps to the integer value that''s actually stored.

I''m trying to set up a directional self-referential HABTM to represent an arbitrary semi-hierarchical structure; it works for any data prepopulated into the db, but when I try to create a new relationship, I just get NULLs in both key columns (or 0''s if I turn on the no-null constraint). Here are the migrations: class CreateNodes < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.up