Ruby Hash wierdness

Ruby
1

Hi

I’m having problems with using a hash. I put in a class and when I
retrieve it, it’s automagically become a string

ie

<%= button_link _(“Export CSV”),
SearchParams.get_url_hash({ :action => :export_csv, :klass =>
Customer }, params, @search_fields) %>

Customer is a class that is available to my view

def export_csv
klass = params[:klass]
cond = SearchParams.get_search_conditions(klass, params,
@search_fields)
set_csv_headers(klass)
csv_export(klass, cond)
end

but here klass (and params[:klass]) is a string? What I really want to
do is

<%= button_link _(“Export CSV”),
SearchParams.get_url_hash({ :action => :export_csv(Customer) },
params, @search_fields) %>

Any ideas why my lovely Customer class is being butchered into a string
:frowning:

Kev

2

Kev J. wrote:

Customer is a class that is available to my view

def export_csv
klass = params[:klass]

Try

klass = Object.const_get(params[:klass])

    SearchParams.get_url_hash({ :action => :export_csv(Customer)

}, params, @search_fields) %>

Any ideas why my lovely Customer class is being butchered into a
string :frowning:

Probably because there is an HTTP request in between?

robert
3

def export_csv
klass = params[:klass]

Try

klass = Object.const_get(params[:klass])

beautiful, thank you so much

Kev

4

Yep, urls only contains strings. Often horribly ugly ones with %20 etc
all through it, but they are strings.

I like the Object.const_get method - cleaner and more specific than an
eval etc.

Nic

5

My guess is (and I am new to rails myself) is that the browser is not
smart enough to send an object, it only knows how to post strings
back to you. I have never tried to send a class back and forth I
always just sent the ID and looked up that particular Customer in the
action.

If you can send back a class than this would definitely be more DRY
and I will have to go back and do some code cleanup if I am told
differently in this thread. (only been on rails for about 1.5 months
now)

Andrew