2009/7/20 Brian Penrose <[email protected]>: > > Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: >> Brian Penrose wrote: >>> I have a string of state codes (ie 'MD,PA,VA,WV') i'm passing from a >>> select list (:allow_multiple => true), in which I'm trying to replace >>> the commas with "','". I have the following gsub, which works fine in >>> irb, however in Rails it's returning "'',''" (double single-quotes). >>> >>> states = params[:states].gsub(/,/, "','") >>> >>> Any suggestions? >> >> Your gsub statement looks fine, but my guess is that it's somehow >> getting called twice, which is why you're getting the quotes doubled. >> >> Best, >> -- >> Marnen Laibow-Koser >> http://www.marnen.org >> [email protected] > > Thanks Maren...I'll look into it...but, the very next line in my code > passes the value of states into a find, so not sure what would cause it > to be called again. > --
In this sort of situation I would use ruby-debug to break into the code at that point, then you can examine the data in and out of gsub and possibly get a clue as to what is happening. Colin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
