George, Here's a link where I tried to collect information on when to use self. with datamapper (of course, this is all due to how ruby works, nothing special with datamapper)
http://alfred.datamapper.org/posts/21 cheers snusnu On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:36, Dan Kubb (dkubb) <dan.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > George, > >> The following code does not seem to work. After creating a new object >> the active_trip_id field is blank in the database. Any ideas what I'm >> doing wrong? > > ... > >> # Default activeTrip to itself if none specified: >> before :save do >> activeTrip ||= self >> end > > The first thing I'd try is prefix the assignment with self, eg: > self.activeTrip ||= self > > Without that you're assigning to a local variable, not the object > accessor/mutator. > > -- > > Dan > (dkubb) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To post to this group, send email to datamapper@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to datamapper+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
