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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,

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)

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

This seems like it must have been asked before - I really _did_ try to find it in the archives, so my apologies if it''s already out there. Utilizing ActiveRecord, I would like to specify a prefix for the column names in my table. For example, in ''Recipe 16 Integrating with Legacy Databases'' (Rails Recipes, from PragProg, by Fowler) they deal with integration with a

(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

I am using the send method in one of my active records ... executing a method without any parameters works fine.. but when it comes to parameters it says ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 0) u = User.new #works u.send :firstname #does not work => ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (1 for 0) u.send :firstname, ''michal'' does someone know why? the rubydoc

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

Hello, I have a model Model: SPECIAL_FEATURES = %w(none top) class Model validates_inclusion_of :special_feature, :in => Model::SPECIAL_FEATURES, :on => :create, :message => "special_feature %s is not defined" belongs_to :team def special_feature attributes = attributes_before_type_cast if attributes["special_feature"]

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

There''s got to be a simple answer: how do you get the IP address of a visitor in Ruby? Any help would be appreciated! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi, Just wondering when one would use "include" over "extend"? Both seem to bring in methods to the class no? The context is I''m just trying to understand why both are used with the acts_as_audited plugin: Full extract from plugin (used within here): ================================================== # Copyright (c) 2006 Brandon Keepers # # Permission is hereby

I have a model where I want to change the display for a single attribute such that if the value is an integer, it displays with no decimal point (e.g. "1"), but if it is non-integer, it displays with a decimal point (e.g. "1.25"). The easiest way to do this seems to be if I could override the to_string method for my_model.my_attribute.to_s. Is there a way to do this? Or

All, I''m finally doing my first real form in Rails - the model object that I''m entering information for has 8 validations so far. If I type in good values for all the fields but one, I get the pretty validation, and the nice field highlighting, but all of the fields are cleared, forcing me to retype all of that info. That is a big drag. Is there a standard way to get the

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

Hi all! I have come into a strange issue in Rails that I am hoping someone can shed some light. To make a very long story short, I have been researching how to override ActiveRecord::Base#read_attribute and write_attribute to perform security checks at the model level (influenced by the ModelSecurity generator). Shortly after implementing some code to check this behavior, I began to

I''m just looking into how to connect to Oracle using Rails. I''ve got everything connecting and working as it should. I have a Users table in Oracle: create_table "users", :force => true do |t| t.column "username", :string t.column "created_on", :datetime t.column "email", :string t.column "note", :text

My application is built on Rails and MySQL. It will only be accepting US formatted dates as input, however both Rails and MySQL are oriented around ISO the format. I know I can convert a good portion of the entries using ParseDate::parsedate but it does not appear this is how the conversion is taking place when data is being transferred from the params hash into model members. Say I have a field

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 Everyone, I''m totally brand new to RoR. I''m really starting to love coding more now that I''ve found RoR. I have what might be a dumb question, but I''m curious to know this. Is it normal to get this result: In the Beginning Rails 4 book I''m following this step: irb(main):097:0> article.location = "Toronto, ON" Here''s

Hi. Given: class Group < AR has_many :users end Is it in any way possible to retain reference to the old users when they get replaced using group.users=(new_users) ? The below doesn''t work but illustrates what I''m looking for: class Group < AR has_many :users def users=(new_users) @old_users = users write_attribute(''users'', new_users)