On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:21 PM, naevity <[email protected]> wrote:
> yes, hardcoding it works. Let's say I want to use an ISBN barcode of > "068816112X" > > This works: > > <%= barcode '068816112X', :encoding_function => Gbarcode::BARCODE_ISBN > %> Good. Just checking that the easy case works. :) > Now, let's say in my types table, I have this: > > id: 1 > type: book > upctype: GBarcode::BARCODE_ISBN I think the problem is your model then. GBarcode::BARCODE_ISBN is not a string. It's a constant that stands for the Fixnum 3. irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems' => true irb(main):002:0> require 'gbarcode' => true irb(main):003:0> Gbarcode::BARCODE_ISBN => 3 irb(main):006:0> Gbarcode::BARCODE_ISBN.class => Fixnum > <%= barcode item.upcnumber, :encoding_format => item.type.upctype %> > > but that's when I get the "in method 'Barcode_Encode', argument 2 of > type 'int' " error. It's a somewhat opaque error message, but it's telling you that the second argument is the wrong type... and that it wants an int. Your view could just as easily contain: <%= barcode "some_string", :encoding_format => 3 %> and it should work the same as <%= barcode "some_string", :encoding_format => Gbarcode::BARCODE_ISBN %> The value you need to store in your database is the integer/Fixnum. -Michael -- Michael C. Libby www.mikelibby.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
