Awesome! The only thing more fun than writing code is deleting code.
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:09 AM, David Susco <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks guys, > > That helped get rid of a lot of code. > > Dave > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Magnus Holm <[email protected]> wrote: >> params is simply Rails' version of @input. >> If you name your keys "user[id]" and "user[name]" in the HTML, then >> @input.user should contain a Hash like { 'id' => ..., 'name' => ... } (maybe >> the keys are Symbols; I don't remember at the moment) >> //Magnus Holm >> >> >> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 15:50, David Susco <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks, I've gotten it to work. >>> >>> On this part though: @user = User.new params[:user >>> >>> Is the closing bracket missing? Is params something from Rails that >>> allows you to create the user instance variable all in one line >>> instead of doing something like this: >>> >>> @user = User.new( >>> :id => input.id, >>> :name => input.name, >>> ... >>> ) >>> >>> Can I use it in a camping app relatively easily? >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Eric Mill <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > In my create actions, I customarily do like >>> > >>> > @user = User.new params[:user >>> > if @user.save >>> > ... >>> > else >>> > ... >>> > end >>> > >>> > But update_attributes should also return true or false, I believe. >>> > >>> > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:42 PM, David Susco <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> So, in my crud controllers, should I be using calls to save instead of >>> >> create and update_attributes? As those just return the object, and not >>> >> true of false based on my validations. >>> >> >>> >> Dave >>> >> >>> >> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Eric Mill <[email protected]> >>> >> wrote: >>> >>> Yeah, but in practice, you'd call @user.save, which internally calls >>> >>> #valid?, and returns true or false on whether the object was saved or >>> >>> not. If the object wasn't saved, @user.errors is populated with the >>> >>> error messages. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- Eric >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Magnus Holm <[email protected]> >>> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm a little rusty on AR at the moment, but I think it looks >>> >>>> something like >>> >>>> this: >>> >>>> In the controller: >>> >>>> if @user.valid? >>> >>>> # everything is fine >>> >>>> else >>> >>>> # ops! @user.errors contains the errors >>> >>>> end >>> >>>> //Magnus Holm >>> >>>> >>> >>>> >>> >>>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 19:43, David Susco <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> Can ActiveRecord::Validations::ClassMethods be used to provide >>> >>>>> feedback to the user? I noticed the tepee example uses >>> >>>>> "validates_uniqueness_of ". If the title isn't unique however >>> >>>>> nothing >>> >>>>> is written and the user is never notified. >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> Does anyone have an example or two of how I could go about informing >>> >>>>> the user that the title they entered was not unique and they need to >>> >>>>> enter another? >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> -- >>> >>>>> Dave >>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>>>> Camping-list mailing list >>> >>>>> [email protected] >>> >>>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list >>> >>>> >>> >>>> >>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>>> Camping-list mailing list >>> >>>> [email protected] >>> >>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list >>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Camping-list mailing list >>> >>> [email protected] >>> >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list >>> >>> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> Dave >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> Camping-list mailing list >>> >> [email protected] >>> >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list >>> >> >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Camping-list mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dave >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Camping-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Camping-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list >> > > > > -- > Dave > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
