How to change a variable while editing a table? (scaffold)

Rails
1

Hello everyone!

I’m trying to modify an example from a book. The example show how to
create a scaffold for a table.

But I want to change the way things are modified.

Here is the method in my controller :

def update
@product = Product.find(params[:id])

respond_to do |format|
  if @product.update_attributes(params[:product])
    flash[:notice] = 'Product was successfully updated.'
    format.html { redirect_to(@product) }
    format.xml  { head :ok }
  else
    format.html { render :action => "edit" }
    format.xml  { render :xml => @product.errors, :status =>

:unprocessable_entity }
end
end
end

So I tried to add this line :

Product.title = “You don’t decide the title! I do!”

after @product = Product.find(params[:id])

But I got an error (undefined method `title=’ for #Class:0x365b654)

Could you help me?

Thank you!

2

In fact I want to modify this parameters :

{“commit”=>“Update”,
“_method”=>“put”,
“authenticity_token”=>“31147ee98ead230e953389a3b8d35415162fca34”,
“id”=>“1”,
“product”=>{“title”=>“test”,
“image_url”=>“gifffff”,
“description”=>“je decide ou pas?@@@”}}

3

Hi Guillaume,

First thing if you want to modify the title on your product after
getting it with @product = Product.find(params[:id]) you cant do
“Product.title = “You don’t decide the title! I do!”” as “Product”
refers to your class and not to the object. You must refer the object
that way:

@product = Product.find(params[:id]) # Getting the product
@product.title = “You don’t decide the title! I do!” # Updating title
@product.save # Saving object in database

Another thing, if you have a undefined method `title=’ for #<Class:
0x365b654> error, it seems that your Product class don’t have a title
attribute. Check in the database that your Product table has a title
attribute before trying to update it ^^

Cheers,
Olivier.

On 20 feb, 13:19, Guillaume L. [email protected]

4

I’ve also tried your way before asking but the title is not modified…

Anyway, I’ve find a way to do that by adding this line :

params[:product][:title] = “I decide the title”

I don’t really understand why by the way ^^

And thank you for your reply :slight_smile:

5

First you have to find the product by:
@product = Product.find(params[:id])
@product.title = “You don’t decide the title! I do!”
@product.save

On Feb 21, 12:19 am, Guillaume L. <rails-mailing-l…@andreas-

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On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Guillaume L.
[email protected] wrote:

def update
:unprocessable_entity }
But I got an error (undefined method `title=’ for #Class:0x365b654)

Could you help me?

Thank you!

Why would you want to do this in the controller (not through user
input?)

If it’s business logic, it belongs in the model.

You could do something like this in the Product model with callbacks.

class Product < ActiveRecord::base
…

before_save :set_title_my_way

protected
def set_title_my_way
self.title = “this is my title…”
end
end

Then when you do an @product.update_attributes(…) in your
controller, it’ll run this before it saves overriding anything passed
in the parameters. It’s generally bad-mojo to modify params during the
request.

Additionally, if with ActiveRecord callbacks you can do this before
create, update, or save (depending on how you want to approach this.)
Learn more about callbacks here:

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Robby

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