Kevin, that's great code and it works like a charm -- thank you. I still have tons to learn about the wonders of ruby.
Oddly enough, even with the primative string concatenation I used in my example above, when I had an empty field somehow I did not end up with an extra space in between other fields .... I don't know how, but it did indeed work that way. On May 24, 2:01 pm, kevinpfromnm <[email protected]> wrote: > just do [title,first_name,middle_name,last_name,suffix].delete_if { | > i| i.blank? }.join(' ') > > you could replace the delete_if with compact if blank values are nil > instead of '' > > On May 24, 11:38 am, Jeremy Savoy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks Matt, that's great to know. > > > So, in the very simplest manner I've put this into my model: > > > def name > > title + " " + first_name + " " + middle_name + " " + last_name + " > > " + suffix > > end > > > This works pretty good .... of course when I have an empty field (like > > middle name for instance) then I end up with one extra " " per > > "name" ... so I'll need to add some conditionals to this. > > > thanks again. > > --jeremy > > > On May 24, 12:46 pm, Matt Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Jeremy Savoy <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > I have a "contact" model that stores the title, first name, middle > > > > name, last name, and suffix of each contact in separate fields. This > > > > is done for sorting contacts by any of those values as well as > > > > statistics (male vs female, etc). > > > > > I would like to have a controller action that combines these five > > > > fields into a meta-field called "name" that could then be used just > > > > like any other field in my "contacts" model, i.e. in table-plus, the > > > > view page of each contact, or wherever I see the need. > > > > For display purposes, simply defining a method 'name' on the model > > > that combines them should work; Hobo will pretty much work with > > > anything in a fields-list call that is a method. > > > > --Matt Jones > > > > -- > > > 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 > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. -- 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.
