Ok, I was also looking at testing for nil? and stuff as well not only setting the attr.
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Frederick Cheung < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Apr 4, 6:50 pm, Chris Habgood <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not looking at the value part looking at the attribute part. Is ex going > to > > be dynamic to set the attribute name correctly? > > > Take a look at the send method (or in the special case of active > record you could use update_attributes (or write_attribute and []= if > you want to operate a level lower)) > > Fred > > > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Conrad Taylor <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Me <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> How would I take the dynamic nature of define_method and also use that > > >> to set attributes: > > > > >> define_method ("#{ex}_method") do > > >> self.my_db_attribute_ex = value > > >> end > > > > >> Is there a way to set the attribute part dynamically? > > > > > Me, you would do something like the following: > > > > > define_method( "#{ex}_method" ) do |value| > > > self.my_db_attribute_ex = value > > > end > > > > > Good luck, > > > > > -Conrad > > > > >> -- > > >> 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]><rubyonrails-talk%2Bunsubscrib > [email protected]> > > >> . > > >> For more options, visit this group at > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > > > > -- > > > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]><rubyonrails-talk%2Bunsubscrib > [email protected]> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- > 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- 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.
