Hey everyone I have (in a nutshell) two models: Customer and Order. Customer has_many Orders and Order belongs_to Customer. The Order model contains fields such as name, address and phone that mirror the associated Customer's fields at the time the order was placed. The reason for this is that if the customer changes their details then the order contains the details that were current when the order was placed.
I'm looking for a smart way to automatically set these fields when I create a new Order for a Customer. I would like to create an order using @order = Customer.orders.build. I could then set each field manually or even use .build(attributes) but this won't be DRY when I need to create orders in the same way in other parts of the site. So, I'm looking for a way to intercept the build method and initialise those fields there. Unless someone has another good idea? I had thought of using ActiveRecord callbacks to do these but there are some fields (namely delivery address fields) that the customer can edit for each order but are still initialised from the Customer record. Thanks Tristan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
