Sorry in advance if this is on the wrong forum/topic.
I'm a novice ruby developer, starting to use ActiveRecord, and am
getting stuck with the following problem:
I have a class defined:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
set_table_name "users"
has_one :locations
has_one :sessions
has_many :task_postings
has_many :task_descriptions
def get_messages(uid)
user = User.find(:first, :conditions => [ "id = '#{uid}'" ])
if(user) then
return user.messages_waiting
end
return nil
end
end
In order to call the method, I have to create an instance of the class
and refer to the method:
new_user = User.new
new_user.get_messages(1)
If I call the method by referring to the class, User.get_messages, I get
a non-existent method error. What I wanted is to be able to call the
class as follows:
User.get_messages(1)
in order to do that, I re-defined the class as:
def self.get_messages(uid)
which works for the call, now I get an exception: "uninitialized
constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes", which implies to me that the
"singleton" version of the method call is not seeing the already open
and functional ActiveRecord mysql class.
Sorry in advance if this is on the wrong forum/topic.
I'm a novice ruby developer, starting to use ActiveRecord, and am
getting stuck with the following problem:
I have a class defined:
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
set_table_name "users"
has_one :locations
has_one :sessions
has_many :task_postings
has_many :task_descriptions
def get_messages(uid)
user = User.find(:first, :conditions => [ "id = '#{uid}'" ])
if(user) then
return user.messages_waiting
end
return nil
end
end
In order to call the method, I have to create an instance of the class
and refer to the method:
new_user = User.new
new_user.get_messages(1)
If I call the method by referring to the class, User.get_messages, I get
a non-existent method error. What I wanted is to be able to call the
class as follows:
User.get_messages(1)
in order to do that, I re-defined the class as:
def self.get_messages(uid)
No, actually you don't want to do this. get_messages is conceptually a
property of an individual user, not of the User class.
You also don't need uid as an argument, since the User object you're
calling this on already knows its id. The proper way to do this would
be
def get_messages # note: no arguments
self.messages_waiting
end
Finally, get_* is somewhat unidiomatic in Ruby; this method should
perhaps just be called messages.