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mo5470
mo5470

Reputation: 977

Modifying model attributes in Ruby on Rails controller

Given a Ruby on Rails model that looks like this (db/schema.rb):

create_table "users", :force => true do |t|
    t.string   "name"
    t.string   "email"
    t.string   "other"
  end

In the users_controller.rb I am doing:

  def new
    @user = User.new
    @user.email.downcase!
    @user.other = "TEST"
  end

and in the show view (show.html.haml): 

User details: 
  %b #{@user.name} + #{@user.email} + #{@user.other}

The problem is that the @user.other value is not displayed at all. My guess is that the @user.other is nil, but I don't know why it's not set to TEST, as I set it in the new controller action.

In my Users model, I set:

attr_accessible :name, :email, :other

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 60

Answers (1)

vee
vee

Reputation: 38645

new and show actions are different. When you set something in new doesn't mean that it will get shown in your show view. If you had @user.other = "TEST" in your create action then you would have definitely seen "TEST" for #{@user.other} in your view.

Upvotes: 3

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