Snippets: Rails to_param

August 09, 2007 @ 05:08 PM | posted by carmelyne

(last updated: 08.09.07)

ID + permalink. The id gets a to_i

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# using .join
def to_param
  [id, permalink].join('-')
end

# just another way to do it
def to_param
  "#{id}-#{permalink}"
end

[ Last updated: August 09, 2007 @ 06:27 PM ]

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“Snippets: Rails to_param”

  1. nicolash:

    using * to join

    def to_param [id, permalink] * '-' end

    ;-)



    Posted: September 28th, 2007 at 11:11 AM

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# Starts with 'A'..'Z' Paginate / model
def self.sort(sort)
  if sort
    find(:all, :conditions => ['name LIKE ?', "#{sort}%"])
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