Hello.
I have a piece of code (method) that I want all my models to have available. What would be the best way to implement it?
Thanks
Hello.
I have a piece of code (method) that I want all my models to have available. What would be the best way to implement it?
Thanks
pepe wrote:
Hello.
I have a piece of code (method) that I want all my models to have available. What would be the best way to implement it?
Thanks
What sort of code is it? Best way may be to extend ActiveRecord::Base
take a look at some plugins for examples.
eg. ActsAsSolr http://github.com/thomas/acts_as_solr/tree/master/lib/acts_as_solr.rb
it defines a module;
module ActsAsSolr module ActsMethods ... stuff to extend ActiveRecord::Base ... end end then does the extend.
# reopen ActiveRecord and include the acts_as_solr method ActiveRecord::Base.extend ActsAsSolr::ActsMethods
You'll see the same quite a bit with a;
module BlahBlahBlah::InstanceMethods ... end
ActiveRecord::Base.include(BlahBlahBlah::InstanceMethods)
just play around in console, see what feels most comfortable.
It's just a piece of code to format data that will go in a form.select. Something like this:
def format_select_option(code, description='') return [code + (description.blank? ? '' : ' - ' + description), code] end
Thanks.
Pepe
Yes, it is something destined for the views. I was a little torn because I didn't want to put anything in the views or the models that didn't belong there. I just didn't think about passing the result set to a method from the view. You just gave me what I actually was looking for from the beginning.
Thanks a lot!
Pepe