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mdiaz00147
mdiaz00147

Reputation: 162

Ruby on rails add attribute to existing object from active records

my issue seemed to be an easy one at first but i could not solved it yet, so im getting some records from my DB and then i need to add an attribute to each of those retrieved records. i Try as follow My model 

class Lesson < ActiveRecord::Base
    attr_reader   :palindrome #getter
    attr_writer   :palindrome #setter
    attr_accessor :palindrome #both

    belongs_to  :schedule
    belongs_to  :user
    has_one     :schedule


end

and in my controller im doing this to add it

def index
    @lessons = Lesson.select(:id,:start_date,:users_allowed,:name,:users_enrolled).where(start_date: (Time.now.beginning_of_week.beginning_of_day)..Time.now.end_of_week.end_of_day).order(start_date: :desc)
    @schedules  = Array(Schedule.where(user_id: 50).pluck(:lesson_id))

    day_id    = params[:id].to_i
    @day_1 = []
    @day_2 = []
    @day_3 = []
    @day_4 = []
    @day_5 = []
    @day_6 = []
    if day_id.present?
      @lessons.each do |lesson|
        lesson.palindrome =  'TEST'
         case lesson.start_date.wday
          when 1
            @day_1 << lesson
           when 2
            @day_2 << lesson
           when 3
            @day_3 << lesson
           when 4
            @day_4 << lesson
           when 5
            @day_5 << lesson
           when 6 
            @day_6 << lesson
         end
      end
      case day_id
        when 1
        @lessons = @day_1
        when 2
        @lessons = @day_2
        when 3
        @lessons = @day_3
        when 4
        @lessons = @day_4
        when 5
        @lessons = @day_5
        when 6
        @lessons = @day_6
      end
      render json: @lessons
    end
  end

BUT im getting this response 

[
  {
    "id": 7019,
    "start_date": "2016-10-24T20:30:00.000Z",
    "users_allowed": 4,
    "name": "Power - Funcional",
    "users_enrolled": 2
  },
  {
    "id": 7018,
    "start_date": "2016-10-24T20:00:00.000Z",
    "users_allowed": 4,
    "name": "Power - Funcional",
    "users_enrolled": 0
  }]

as you can see is not returning the new attribute i assigned, however i tried by calling 

render json: @lessons[0].palindrome

and it does return to me the value of the attribute, my question is how can i do so when i render the entire object it returns the new attr value ? Many thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8496

Answers (1)

Pyrce
Pyrce

Reputation: 8571

You're passing an Array of ActiveRecord objects, not hashes. The json converter will parse of the attributes of the model instead of custom variables assigned to those objects. Try converting the models to hashes:

lesson = lesson.attributes
lesson['palindrome'] = 'TEST'

Also consider refactoring your code, I don't think you need those case statements nor the @dayx variables which make it hard to understand.

Upvotes: 9

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