So this all works pretty good, I can use "this" in my table plus and
it puts the fully generated "name" field into the table just as you
would hope.
I'm having trouble now setting scopes on the index action. This is
what I'd like to use:
def index
hobo_index Contact.apply_scopes(:search =>
[params[:search], :name],
:order_by =>
parse_sort_param(:last_name))
end
There are two problems though:
1) First, when I try to search I'm told that contacts.name doesn't
exist. If I change it to :last_name or :first_name etc, the search
works on those fields.
2) Second, the sort does not work, my table-plus is still ordered by
contact_id (:id).
Any ideas?
thanks,
Jeremy
On May 24, 3:06 pm, kevinpfromnm <[email protected]> wrote:
> actually, that's the wonders of html. more than one whitespace
> character in a row is treated as one
>
> On May 24, 12:37 pm, Jeremy Savoy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > 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
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