For your nil object problem, can you use ruby's OR shortcut behavior for it? If this.patient is nil, it will then evaluate the Patient.new.
this.patient || Patient.new On Mar 2, 8:45 am, Bryan Larsen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 2, 5:18 am, Tom Locke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The menu option is not actually "New Object" but rather "New > > Product" (ow whatever the model is), right? > > Correct. > > > > > I think it might be better (clearer to the user) to have something > > more like a prompt ("Select one...") as the first option, have the > > field-list hidden by default, and have "New Whatever" as the last > > option? > > For my use case, "New Foo" would be the most common, and I'd rather > have the field list visible at present. Of course, this could be > paramaterizable. > > > Hmm then again it could get buried if the list is long. I'm > > just thinking that the option to chose an existing object might not be > > noticed. Can anyone think of any good examples of this type of UI > > they've seen on the web? > > Anyone else? Back seat UI designers? > > The big thing this widget is missing is the ability to be able to edit > the record. But what I have is a good start. > > > > > > 1) This doesn't work when the belongs-to is nil, I need to add <% > > > this.patient = Patient.new if this.patient.nil? %> in front of my > > > <select-one-or-field-list:patient /> invocation. > > Is there any way to place this snippet inside of my tag definition? I > haven't been able to make it happen anyhow. Wrapping with <fake-field- > context> is the closest I've come, but of course that doesn't work. > > thanks, > Bryan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
