On Nov 8, 8:04 am, Ryoichiro Kamiya <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to set initial process when instantiating model by > overriding initialize() method which takes arguments. The initialize() > method overrides the parent ActiveRecord::Base class's by taking > arguments and assign arguments to its instance variables. > > class Product < ActiveRecord::Base > > def initialize(item = nil) > super > # and then process to assign variables from item argument to > instance variables > # .... > end
What does the actual code in there look like? What is the error that you get ? Fred > > In order to fully leverage ActiveRecord::Base class functionality, I'm > calling super to run the default initialization process (i.e. set up > all setter/getter methods). However, the Product class above still > can't find getter/setter methods for its variables. In the meantime, I > found the following blog article suggesting use after_initialize > instead of overriding Active Record object. > > Rails: Don't override initialize on ActiveRecord > objectshttp://blog.dalethatcher.com/2008/03/rails-dont-override-initialize-o... > > I could not find ways to set arguments for this after_initialize > approach. > > Can anybody advise should I override initialize() or use > after_initialize with some ways to take arguments? > > Thanks, > Ryo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
