I've got a form for editing a model called Property. Property has two fields, web_color and thumbnail_path, that are nil by default, and the model has some behaviour to generate defaults for them when nil, which is the usual case.
When the form is submitted, the text fields for these attributes come through as empty strings, and so these attributes are changed to be empty strings instead of nil. I can think of some hacky ways to stop this, such as doing something like this in the controller: params[:property][:web_color] = nil if params[:property][:web_color].blank? But, it would be better if this behaviour lived in the model. One way would be to set up a before_save callback like this: before_save :set_nils def set_nils self.web_color = nil if self.web_color.blank? self.thumbnail_path = nil if self.thumbnail_path.blank? end But, this feels kind of hacky and i'd like a cleaner way. Can anyone show me one? thanks max -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
