def caption
  self[:caption] || title
end

On Oct 8, 5:11 am, Joshua Muheim <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Oh my god, this really shouldn't be a tough one, but I just don't get
> it. ;-)
>
> class Page < ActiveRecord::Base
>   def caption
>     caption ? caption : title
>   end
> end
>
> I want to return the content of the title column when the caption column
> is empty:
>
> p.caption # Caption is not empty
> # => "caption"
>
> p.caption # Caption is empty
> # => "title"
>
> Not astonishing, I get a StackLevelTooDeep Exception with my "solution"
> above... But how can I do it right?
>
> Thanks a lot... My brain is just a bit wrecked today...
> Josh
> --
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