I'm working on migrating a 0.7.2 codebase to current Hobo that does some things that sound a lot like this; look for more info when I get the code cleaned up some...
--Matt Jones On Jun 10, 2009, at 10:49 PM, Ritchie Young wrote: > I appreciate all the feedback on this but the more I thought about > it, the more I realised I wasn't really sure what I was asking for. > > I think I meant for Hobo to detect if the rich-type had particular > callback methods and, if so, to hook them into the model's read and > write methods for that field. In other words, to do automatically, > what I was doing in my example. > > This behaviour could be confusing though because the application > author might have some other valid reason for wanting to override > those reader and writer methods. I don't know if there's a resilient > way to do this. > > Then I started to think that what I really wanted was a hook into > the view/controller layers. The <view/> tag and I think the <input/> > tags already call to_s on the object being displayed. So by > overriding that in the rich-type we're half-way there. If we could > have a from_s method on the rich type that was called when data was > written we could do the conversion there. Only, from_s would have to > be a class method or a constructor because the rich-types inherit > from the base types. > > At this point I read about ActiveRecord's Aggregate functionality, > which seems to overlap this somewhat, and got really confused. Which > is why I haven't logged an enhancement request on lighthouse. > > I'm getting by quite nicely, for now, with my original solution: > store it as an integer and convert it in the field getters and > setters. > > > /Ritchie > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
