Where is a good place to update a date field?

Rails
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I have a field that indicate that a reservation has been cancelled. I
want
to update a cancellation_date field with the date that the reservation
is
cancelled. I am trying to think of where the best place to do that is?

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Dave

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On 2/4/06, Wilson B. [email protected] wrote:

pre-requisites or permissions to your Reservation model. Just call
@reservation.cancel from some controller action, after the user tells
you they want to cancel.
Or, better, something like:
@reservation.cancel unless @reservation.cancelled?

Yeah, I should have been more clear.

The reservation has a status that can be an number of things and within
that
set there is a number of “cancelled” states. So when the status changes
to
one of the cancelled states I need to set the cancellation date field as
well.

I ended up using the before_update hook for this. I guess that is a
reasonable place, but I would say that it is not clear the best place
for
setting related fields. The other option would be to create a trigger,
but
it is so easy to just do it with a hook.

Thanks for the response,

Dave

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On 2/4/06, David C. [email protected] wrote:

I have a field that indicate that a reservation has been cancelled. I want
to update a cancellation_date field with the date that the reservation is
cancelled. I am trying to think of where the best place to do that is?

I like this kind of thing:

class Reservation < ActiveRecord::Base
def cancelled?
!self[:cancellation_date].nil?
end
def cancel
self[:cancellation_date] = Date.today
end
end

This gives you a single place to make changes if you add
pre-requisites or permissions to your Reservation model. Just call
@reservation.cancel from some controller action, after the user tells
you they want to cancel.
Or, better, something like:
@reservation.cancel unless @reservation.cancelled?