Many thanks Michael, it solved the problem, and thanks for the extra advice I need it! as where I am based (Indonesia) no one teaches rails.
On Feb 15, 7:39 pm, Michael Pavling <pavl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15 February 2010 10:46, David Krett <dbkr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I am a ruby on Rails Novice and I am having an extremely frustrating > > problem - not sure whether acts_as_tree plug in is causing this or not (or > > me lacking a fundamental misunderstanding of rails) > > > Everything works when I test the above code in the Rails console however > > when running the server the children are failing to have the > > commission_rate variable updated. > > Would appreciate any help anyone can provide me. > > You're not saving the child after you update it's value > > for child in @children do > child.commissions_rate = @rate > child.save > end > > or > > for child in @children do > child.update_attribute(:commissions_rate, �...@rate) > end > > .update_attribute automatically saves, check the Rails API docs for > more info on using this method. > > PS You're using a lot of instance variables there, which seem like > there would be better scoped as local variables (ie drop the @ from > the variables unless you need them to be accessible on an instance of > the object - @destination is probably the only legitimate instance > variable) -- 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-t...@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.
