WWR - Railsplugin: Active Record Defaults

Active Record Defaults

= Active Record Defaults

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== Instructions

Allow you to easily specify default values for attributes on new model objects. Eg:

class Person &lt; ActiveRecord::Base
  defaults :country => 'New Zealand', :type => 'Unknown'
end

default :last_name do |person|
  person.first_name
end

You can also define a defaults method like so:

class Person &lt; ActiveRecord::Base
  def defaults
    self.first_name = "Jonathan" 
  end
end

The default value is only used if the attribute is not present in the attributes hash:

p = Person.new
p.country # "New Zealand"

p = Person.new(:country => nil)
p.country # nil

Installation script/plugin install http://svn.viney.net.nz/things/rails/plugins/active_record_defaults Help

Feel free to email with any problems, suggestions, bugs etc…

jonathan dot viney @ gmail . com

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