On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Frederick Cheung < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Nov 26, 4:13 pm, Rick DeNatale <[email protected]> wrote: > > On one of the many Rails projects I've worked on over the years, I > > seem to recall using either a helper or a method on a model to > > generate a css id based on the model class and id. It was very useful > > particularly in making views more testable in RSpec/Cucumber. > > > > I can't remember if this was part of rails, or from a plugin or > > something specific to the project. > > > Are you thinking of dom_id / dom_class ? > Interesting... was not aware of this. Just today was writing a helper method to create a friendly id for an object I am writing to a table row. The challenge with dom_id/class is that when using Cucumber you really do not know (without making a good guess) what the id of a record will be. I am curious if anyone has done or thought of the following for models, something where one defines what fields would constitute a friendly field id which does not involve the index but fields that would be known in a Cucumber scenario? I seem to be writing helpers for this quite often as it seems like often the best strategy for checking for something on a page is to place the data with an id or as a child of some object with a specific id or class. I am not quite sure how to do this as it seems it would have to extend ActiveModel/ActiveRecord...or maybe be done in a module which can be aware of what constituted the friendly_id of a model: include FriendlyId class Borrower < ActiveRecord::Base friendly_id :last_name, :first_name # so in each model you just define what fields of the model will constitute the friendly id end module FriendlyId def friendly_id # how do I access the 'friendly_id' settings from the model I am mixed in to? end end borrower = Borrower.new(:last_name => "Kahn", :first_name => "David) # using ActiveRecord/ActiveModel borrower.friendly_id >> "kahn_david" or friendly_id(borrower) David > > Fred > > > > I've failed to find anything like this in the rails docs. > > > > Any ideas what this might have been? > > > > -- > > Rick DeNatale > > > > Blog:http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/ > > Github:http://github.com/rubyredrick > > Twitter: @RickDeNatale > > WWR:http://www.workingwithrails.com/person/9021-rick-denatale > > LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/in/rickdenatale > > -- > 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.
