On Sep 2, 8:28 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-
s.net> wrote:
> AppleII717 wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I'm trying to cut down my javascript habits, but sometimes it's just
> > faster. My next problem is phone numbers. They were stored as string
> > (10), but the user could use any format they wished. At the end, we
> > just stripped out the non digits and validated on 10 digits. But when
> > you are displaying it in the form, 10 straight digits without
> > formatting is not very user friendly.
>
> Right.
>
> > Stripping them out in a before
> > filter has also become non trivial because of a polymorphic
> > relationship where the phone number fields don't all use the same
> > field name.
>
> Then this should probably be refactored.
Right, but then I discovered I was going the wrong way on my
polymorphic relations. Without going into boring details, I have
several types of users (employees, citizens, customers, etc), each
with different profiles. I used Authlogic and defined the Users with a
poloymorphic loginable type. The mistake I make is trying to edit the
Citizen profile from User. It works, but that's where I ran in to the
phone name problem. Going from the Citizen, I can update the User
attributes and take care of phone stuff in the Citizen controller/
model.
>
> > Its is almost faster to use javascript format the phone
> > number in a display field and put the unformatted number in the real
> > field.
>
> This is a 100% inappropriate use of JS. Regardless of the name of the
> phone number field, it is trivial to write a helper function to do the
> formatting on the server side -- and it will work even if the client has
> JS off. There is no reason at all to use JS here.
>
>
I now agree - well I did before - I was just stuck in a learning mode
that was not working because I took the wrong path.
>
> > Been "playing" with rails for about 3 years, but the world is more
> > than generated CRUD
>
> So is Rails.
>
> > and there is a steep learning curve.
>
> Not really -- as long as you don't rely on scaffolding, and as long as
> you're OK with Ruby itself.
>
> > You tend to
> > fall back to what you know.
>
> > Steve
>
> I don't know...I tend to use it as an excuse to learn. YMMV.
I've learned a lot since getting out of the "playing" mode. I just
hate getting stuck trying to do something I know should be simple. As
a few posts have pointed out, my Ruby is kind of weak. I love it, but
don't have enough experience to do much without looking something up
in the docs. Guess I just want to learn faster!
> Best,
> --
> Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org
> [email protected]
>
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