Colin Law wrote in post #954895: > On 17 October 2010 06:17, Evanoshki Brataslavainskinski > <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: >> Luke Cowell wrote in post #954878: >>> Did you try Michael's suggestion of adding this to your controller? >>> >>> helper_method :find_first_in_group >>> >>> This probably isn't the best approach, but you could change line 5 to >>> something like this: >>> <% @image_url = Camera.find_first_group_image(camera.camtype)%> > > It is generally not considered good practice to access model methods > directly from the view. Possibly a better way would be to define an > instance method, image_url, in the Camera class. Then you could say > <%= link_to(image_tag(camera.image_url)) %>
Right. Colin is being nice, so I'll be less nice: the view should NEVER EVER EVER touch the database. I am beginning to think that, for this reason and others, template languages (such as Mustache) where you can't call *any* model methods are the way to go... > > Colin Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- 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-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.
