I just posted a similar question regarding best practices when you have methods you want to share across multiple AR models.
I ended up writing a module and sticking it in the lib directory. In order to make these methods available to your models, simply include it with: class Post < ActiveRecord::Base include MyModule end That seems to be a very neat and clean way to juggle these methods and DRY up your model code somewhat. -- Josh http://iammrjoshua.com Brandon Keepers wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Pardee, Roy <parde...@ghc.org> wrote: >> kid.attributes = atts >> I'd like to write these methods once generically & call the generic versions >> from the various models where I need to do this. But it seems that helper >> methods aren't visible from within a model (right?). Where can I put these >> generic methods so that they're visible from my models? I'm using rails >> 2.0.2. > You may want to check out the attribute_fu plugin: > http://github.com/giraffesoft/attribute_fu/commits/master > > This wraps up this pattern cleaner than I could in my vain attempts. > It also provides some view helpers for displaying the models. > > -- Brandon > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Training by Collective Idea: Ruby on Rails training in a vacation > setting > http://training.collectiveidea.com � San Antonio, TX � Jan 20-23 -- 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 rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
