Attribute name selected in form

Rails
1

Hello,

I have a form to add terms to a thesaurus table.
I have a drop-down list for the user to select the language (fr, en,
es,), and then a text box to write a term with a code. I want to set
the @thesaurus[whichever language was selected] = term.

How can I say @thesaurus[‘fr’] = term, where ‘fr’ was the selected
language in the select box?

Parameters: { “lang”=>“fr”, “thesterm”=>{“term”=>“pigment”=>""},
“commit”=>“submit”}

Thesterm Create (0.4ms) INSERT INTO thesterms (en, fr, it,
fi, sr, code, refcount) VALUES(’’, ‘pigment’, ‘’, ‘’, ‘’,
NULL, NULL)

2

Hi,

I suppose the best way to do this would be to create a row for each word
having a column for lang and a column for term.

If you want to do it the way you describe, you could do it like this:

With validation:
@thesaurus.update_attributes params[:lang] => term

Without validation:
@thesaurus.update_attribute params[:lang], term

Without updating:
@thesaurus.attributes = { params[:lang] => term }

Hope this helps.

/Lasse

2010/6/22 Mlle [email protected]

3

Or you could make the [] method you mentioned. In your model:

def []=(lang, term)
self.attributes = { lang => term }
end

Then you can call it like you wanted:

@thesaurus[‘fr’] = “Bonjour”

/Lasse

2010/6/23 Lasse B. [email protected]