On Sunday, 13 April 2014 13:19:31 UTC-4, Walter Lee Davis wrote: > > Inside the form_for helper, f.submit will create a different button based > on the state of the object the form is based upon. So you get Create Widget > or Update Widget, depending on whether the @widget is persisted already or > not. Very nice. > > Now what if my @widget was actually a reserved word, and I had masked this > in my application by creating a set of routes for the reserved word that > pointed to the actual controller. This works, for example: > > resources :actions, controller: :fw_actions > resources :fw_actions > > The resulting Save/Update button looks awful, though, (Create Fw action) > and I can't find any good way to override it without manually testing if > the @fw_action is persisted or not. Is there a central place in Rails 4.0.4 > to override the naming conventions used within these helpers? I've read > through the API documentation and the Rails Guides without finding any > parameter I can set to do this. > > This works: > > <%= f.submit (f.object.persisted? ? 'Update Action' : 'Create Action') > %> > > ...but it's ugly. This issue also means religiously applying the path > helpers everywhere to make the URL stay coherent, rather than being able to > just redirect_to @fw_action from the controller, or link_to @fw_action in > the view. I can recall using the i18n framework to change the labels on > fields, but as far as I can tell, that doesn't allow you to change the > visible name of the model itself. Is there another way? > > I haven't dug too deep on it, but maybe overriding some of the methods from ActiveModel::Naming (class methods in your FwAction model) would do what you're looking for?
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveModel/Naming.html --Matt Jones -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/e499fbaa-da37-419d-b9f0-ca868c9fbb0a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
