> > user_statuses is a master table having values > > id name > 1 Pending > 2 Approved > 3 Deleted >
My first question is why do you have a table for user_status? Are
administrators of your app going to be adding new statuses via a web
interface?
if not, why not just have constants:
class User
STATUS_PENDING = 1
STATUS_APPROVED = 2
STATUS_DELETE = 3
...
end
> user = User.find(params[:id])
> user.update_attributes(:user_status_id => 2)
>
> Rather than hard coding user_status_id = 2, is there any other
> approach?
>
user.update_attributes(user_status => User::STATUS_APPROVED)
It sounds like you're making it more complex than it needs to be.
Alternatively if you wanted to keep it your way you could do:
user.update_attributes(:user_status_id =>
UserStatus.find_by_name("Approved").try(:id))
This finds the UserStatus record with the name Approved and uses it's id (if
it's found)
Cheers,
Andy
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