On Jun 3, 4:37 am, Japmsn Japms <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> okay lol forget about the "nil" problem I mentioned at the end, that was
> because out of the huge list of words there were a few that started with
> a symbol other than a kanji so just doing:
>
> "k.id unless k.nil?" did the trick
>
> so I'm going to change my question to... is there another(simpler) way
> to do this? right now my helper looks like crap, I mean... like this:
>
> *************************************
> def word_to_links(word)
> parts, o = [], ""
> (word.size/3).times{ |i| parts << word[i*3,3] }
I wouldn't rely on some or most kanjis being exactly 3 bytes in utf8 -
use the multibyte chars stuff in activesupport
Fred
> parts.each do |part|
> k = Kanji.find(:first, :conditions => "kanjis.kanji = '#{part}'")
> o << (k.nil? ? part : link_to(part, "/kanjis/#{k.id}"))
> end
> o
> end
> *************************************
>
> Thanks.
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