Hello,
In my database, I have a table "products" with attributes : - id - title ->string - desc -> text
I use active record, but I don't know why recover the type of this attribute with active record?
I try attributes_before_type_cast but I don't see the type
Can you help me?
Excuse for my english (I'am a young student french)
Richard Vincent wrote:
Hello,
In my database, I have a table "products" with attributes : - id - title ->string - desc -> text
I use active record, but I don't know why recover the type of this attribute with active record?
I try attributes_before_type_cast but I don't see the type
Can you help me?
Excuse for my english (I'am a young student french)
Either of these should get you what you want.
MyClass.columns_hash['column_name'].type
@instance_of_my_class.column_for_attribute(:column_name).type
Although, I should mention that in nearly two years of developing in Rails professionally, I don't think I've ever needed to retrieve this information in any of my apps. Are you sure that what you really want isn't the ruby class of the value (eg. @instance.column_name.class ), or something else?
Ok thanks for your example, it's goog for my app
Other question : In my database, I have a table "line_items" with attributes : - id -> integer - product_id -> integer and I have a foreign key (product-id references table product)
It is possible to recover the class of attribute product_id? In my app I list object in my database (like phpMyAdmin) and if a foreign key I want to link to the object reference by this foreign key.
For example, in "line_items", list object of this table and I want a link in "product_id" to this product
I don't know if it's possible???
Jon Garvin wrote: