Jeremy Weiskotten wrote: > Bill McGuire wrote: >> Hello all. I've set up an inventory app and I want to be able to have >> the index file display ether everything in inventory or only items on >> order. So I want to populate @spares with the appropriate content then >> pass it to index.html.erb >> Is this the right approach? If so how do put logic into the controller >> to populate @spares ? >> Any help appreciated! >> ...Bill >> > > It looks like you're generally going in the right direction. However, > you're setting @spares twice, so your view will only see the results of > the second #find. It's not really clear to me what effect you're going > for here. > > I also recommend using named_scope for the "on order" items, if you're > using Rails 2.1 or above. They're a bad-ass way to encapsulate common > filters on your objects. > > http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/3/24/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-has-finder-functionality
Thanks for the reply Jeremy. I didn't mean to show that I was populating @spares twice, I was looking for a way to populate it one of the two ways depending on what the user wanted to see. I'll take a look at the link you sent, might be the way to go. Thanks again. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
