similar to: write_attribute functionality for related objects?

Could someone explain this? #config/initializers/ar_attributes.rb module ActiveRecord module AttributeMethods alias_method :ar_read_attribute, :read_attribute def read_attribute(attr_name) p "read_override" ar_read_attribute(attr_name) end alias_method :ar_write_attribute, :write_attribute def write_attribute(attr_name, value)

I''ve got a user object which has quite a few attributes mapped to the database. As of right now I''ve got some validations in the model like: validates_presence_of :password, :message => "You must specify a valid password." validates_confirmation_of :password, :message => "Password doesn''t match the confirmation." validates_presence_of

Can anyone clarify something for me? I''ve been having a hard time with write_attribute. If I do (for instance in a callback): write_attribute(:user, user) Is obj.user_id set automatically too? And viceversa, if I do: write_attribute(:user_id, user.id) Does that set obj.user for me? Doesn''t seem like it''s doing that for me. Anyone understands exactly what

Hi all, Is there a way to invoke validations at times other than save, create and update? I know that I can do this by writing my own validation checks using errors.add_[blah], but I''d like to leverage the existing validation code. What I have is two sets of fields in a record, set A and set B. Both sets must be validated on record create. However, the trouble is that after

Would really appreciate it if someone could tell me why this is happening: I override ssn method of AR class so I can encrypt/decrypt to/from the db: class Person < ActiveRecord::Base def ssn=(value) write_attribute(:borrower_ssn, Crypto.encrypt(self.encryption_key, value)) write_attribute(:borrower_ssn_final_four, value[5,4]) end def ssn # this begin - rescue can be

How do you tell if an foreign key attribute has been changed? For example, lets say you have a model with attribute table_a_id. Would you do this? def table_a_id=(value) if value != table_a_id @table_a_changed = true write_attribute ''table_a_id'', value end end def table_a=(value) if value != table_a @table_a_changed = true

i am doing a couple of times the following in my models class User < ActiveRecord::Base def name=(val) write_attribute :name, val.to_s.strip end end quite clear, it strips the name when setting it. now the question: Is it possible to do something like the following .. and if yes how could i achieve it class User < ActiveRecord::Base auto_strip :name, :street end thanks... --

(This message was originally written on StackOverflow -- the formatting is much prettier there -- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1283046/problem-with-setter-override-on-activerecord) This is not exactly a question, it''s rather a report on how I solved an issue with write_attribute when the attribute is an object, on Rails'' Active Record. I hope this can be useful to others

Guys, Say I have the following: ----- class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :house end class House < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :person attr_accessor :color end ----- Then I have the following code: ----- john = Person.new john.house.color = "Blue" john.save ----- What I would like to have happen, is that on first call to john.house, if house hadn''t been

Hi guys, I''m trying to make an AR model which accepts a string data (from a text input) in euro date format eg <input .... value = "23/01/2006"> ( 23 Jan 2006) Reading the example from RDoc... i tried to overwrite/overload/override the = function to write in the date.. Cant get it to work because .. i dont knoe what format should it accept.. i''ve tried

Hi, I have a model similar Basket shown below. If customer_type is set then it should also set customer to nil. Likewise, if I set customer, it should inspect the customer_type attached to the customer and set accordingly within Basket. However implementing it as below doesn''t seem to work. Am I missing a better way to achieve this? I had also considered using a before_save

I have modified scaffolding code slightly to get three edit actions and three update actions. The requirement: to allow users to edit attributes for the same model from seperate forms instead of one form, while using the given scaffolding code and performing model validations. I am using restful_authentication with the login email password validations defined. class users_controller

Hello all, I''ve been trying to use a facade column but I notice that the form helpers don''t seem to respect the facade. In the following example I''m trying to story the prices as Integer values but present them to the user as decimals. class Product < ActiveRecord::Base def price=(new_price) write_attribute(:price, Float(new_price)*100) end def price

Hello, I have a situation where an ''employee'' belongs to a ''department'' and have setup the relationship as follows. class Employee < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :department, :foregin_key => "department_id" validates_associated :department_id end class Department < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :employees def validate_on_update

Hey.. So I have a model that has a lot of number fields. Each of these go through a process when read in and read out to add/remove commas (between every three numbers) to make them more readable. The getter I currently have is like this: def sale_price Listing.insert_commas(read_attribte (:sale_price)) end and the setter is: def sale_price=(price) write_attribute(:saleprice,

Hi all, I have some problems inserting data into a legacy table. the key field of this table is a field named CIN which is a varchar(15). when I try insert into this table using a form (generated by the scaffold generator) I get this Error : _____________________________________________________________________ undefined method `CIN_before_type_cast'' for #<Candidat:0x370d8c8> |

There are datatypes that need to be converted back and forth from a string representation: they need to be parsed both coming from the database, and coming from elsewhere like views. Dates are an example, and I recently needed to implement a more forgiving converter for decimal numbers. So we have here at least two flows of execution, for example: post.date = "22-jan-2007"

Hi there, I have a file upload form on my page that is for images. In the model I have this: def file_data=(file_data) @file_data = file_data write_attribute ''extension'', file_data.original_filename.split(''.'').last.downcase write_attribute("content_type", file_data.content_type) write_attribute("current_name",

Hi all, I''m trying to overwrite a setter method, but am running into some difficulties. This is normally really easy when overwriting a setter for a table column, but in this case it is the setter for an associated object. Here''s a hypothetical example: class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :posts end class Post < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user

This patch teaches taskomatic to use the volume 'key' instead of the path from libvirt to key the volume off of in the database. This fixes the duplicate iscsi volume bug we were seeing. The issue was that libvirt changed the way they name storage volumes and included a local ID that changed each time it was attached. Note that the first run with this new patch will cause duplicate