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JerryA
JerryA

Reputation: 310

Rails Ruby Logic for Dynamically updating specific Column Based on Param value

I have caller ID functionality working for my app but I am currently stumped on how to dynamically update the correct column based on the value of params[:call_number_type]

params[:call_number_type] can be "alt_phone", "cell_phone", "office_phone", or nil ... nil defaulting to "alt_phone" would be ideal.

Each of the above strings corresponds to a column name that I need to update if params[:call_number_type] has that value.

@contact = Contact.find(params[:contact_id])

if @contact.update(this_needs_to_be_the_right_column_key: params[:call_number])

The above update statement would have to be dynamically created based on the value of params[:call_number_type]

If some one could help me out that would be great. Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 159

Answers (1)

MilesStanfield
MilesStanfield

Reputation: 4639

Try this

if @contact.update(call_number_type => params[:call_number])
  ...

private

def call_number_type
  params[:call_number_type].present? ? params[:call_number_type] : :alt_phone
end

Upvotes: 1

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