If you're just trying to make them go away completely, never_show may do the trick. But I'm not sure what the utility of userstamps that are invisible is...
Also, for the super-paranoid out there, this plugin could be useful: http://github.com/laserlemon/vestal_version Stores every version of objects and lets you rewind back in time... --Matt Jones On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:06 PM, Iain wrote: > > Has anyone ever tried customizing the timestamp fields? I've written > a > plugin that adds three new fields for monitoring the user who > created, > updated and deleted each model (via an association to the users > table), which is working great, but I'd like to hide them from the > user in such a way that they behave just like the existing timestamp > fields. Sounds easy but it's driving me nuts! > > So far I've overridden both definitions of the standard_fields helper > (one for generating dryml and one called from rapid), which is > working > well, but it turns out that with-fields and with-field-names work > differently in subtle ways (for example, with-fields uses > standard_fields() whereas with-field-names explicitly removes the > timestamp fields instead). What's more, even if I remove the fields > in > standard_fields(), they are automatically added back in because they > are associations, unless I explicitly specify skip-associations > (which > is a pain because I don't want to skip all associations). Then on top > of all of that, I've noticed that <table> has the "force-all" > attribute hard-coded in which seems to be stopping me from hiding > these fields even if I use view_permitted? in the model. > > Does anyone have any neat ideas about how to do this? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
