I've done all that; but since this is an ActiveRecord object, I was hoping there was a way to do this in one spot, through a Rails hook, rather than having to remember to code this each time.
The way I encapsulated all this was to create an initialize_to_zeros method and now I call that each time after doing a model.new ...jon On Sep 13, 8:56 am, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > Please quote when replying, otherwise the discussion becomes impossible > to follow. > > Jon Seidel wrote: > > I do have default values specified, but these only take effect when > > writing to the database, now when the new object is created. > > Yes, of course. If you need them before that, put them in the > constructor. > > (In other words: use Ruby's object model to your advantage! :) ) > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
