Putting "RE:" in the subject line of Private Messages

Rails
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Hey guys,

My app has a private messaging system and I need to be able to put “Re:”
in the subject line when a user replies to a message.

Something like this…

message_reply.html*

My problem is how do I stop the “Re:” building up when I save it to the
database.

I don’t want this …

Re: Re: Re: Re:

Any Ideas how this could be done?

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obviously I meant

message_reply.rhtml*

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Scott H. wrote:

My app has a private messaging system and I need to be able to put “Re:”
in the subject line when a user replies to a message.
[…]

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My problem is how do I stop the “Re:” building up when I save it to the
database.

In the above case it could be done with something like:

<%= 'Re: ’ unless @message.subject.starts_with?(‘Re:’) %>

But it strikes me as something that’s better placed in the model, not
the UI.

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Jakob S. - http://mentalized.net