Railsify!

Stringgable Shortcuts

Shortcuts and extractions I've found from defining a to_s method on my ActiveRecord models.

Example

  class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
    def to_s
      name
    end
  end

  # Shortens link_to arguments
  @person = Person.create :name => "David"
  link_to @person # => <a href="/people/1">David</a>

  # Sets default choices with select method
  select("post", "person_id") # => select("post", "person_id", Person.find(:all).collect {|p| [ p.name, p.id ] })


Copyright (c) 2007 Joshua Peek, released under the MIT license

Last updated: August 23, 2007 20:20