Hey Phil, One more question: I should only make changes in .rb and .erb files subordinate to the app directory, right?
Thanks again, Richard On May 13, 4:27 pm, Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've got an app close to ready as version 1, but client wants labels > > on a form and corresponding column names in the database changed, e.g. > > the label/column named "purpose" to "description". > > > I've got a form defined in app\views\expenses\new.html.erb with a > > field defined as: > > > <%= f.label :purpose %><br /> > > <%= f.text_field :purpose %> > > > Of course the name "purpose" appears, among other places, also in > > app\views\expenses\index.html.erb > > > <table> > > <tr> > > <th>Purpose</th> > > [snip] > > </tr> > > > <% @expenses.each do |expense| %> > > <tr> > > <td><%=h expense.purpose %></td> > > > In short, can I make changes like this: > > 1. simply through the "change" mechanism of migration -or- > > 2. with a Ruby program to make case-sensitive changes in all files > > with names ending in .rb or .html -or > > 3. some other way aside from manually? > > You could also just leave the database column and change the visible labels. > That works if the field really is the 'purpose', but can get confusing down > the road to remember to label it as 'Description'. > > If you're going to change it, change the column using a migration. > > And *manually* change all the occurrences of it. "grep -ri purpose *" will > find all the instances of it. You don't want to do it programmatically > because you might very well end up changing the sentence "the purpose of the > description is to" to "the description of the description is to" which isn't > what you want. > > Of course, if you see reasonable patterns in the output of grep by all means > do some magic on them... for example maybe... > > perl -i -p -e 's/:purpose /:description /g' file1 file2 file3 > perl -i -p -e 's/\.purpose /.description /g' .... > perl -i -p -e 's/>Purpose</>Description</g' .... > etc... > > That right there might get most of them. > > -philip > > -- > 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 > athttp://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.
