Sven Schott
1/6/2005 2:43:00 AM
Sorry about the noise. I scoured the API docs and found the answer.
@system['field']="value"
I didn't know it was just a hash. Nice.
Sven
On 05/01/2005, at 3:14 PM, Sven Schott wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've started the tutorials on rails and I've really enjoyed it so far.
> However, I have hit a bit of a snag. I've looked through the tutorials
> and the API but I couldn't figure out how to do it.
>
> I'm writing an application to store information on system
> specifications. One of the things I would like it to do, is to not
> delete records but instead 'unlink' them(set the id to 0). I know the
> attributes method allows you to replace all the values but I only want
> to replace the id value. I messed around with it until I didn't get an
> error but I still can't get it to work. Help! Help! Any ideas,
> suggestion, criticisms, abuse; hell, I'll take anything useful at this
> point.
>
> Here's the code I have so far:
>
>
>
> def destroy
> @system = System.find(@params["id"])
> @system.id = 0
> @system.save
>
> redirect_to :action => "list"
> end
>
> I don't know if this code does anything useful. :)
>
> I am running ruby 1.9.0 (2004-03-09) [powerpc-darwin] on MacOS 10.3.7
> on a Powerbook G4. Rails is installed via gem:
>
> actionmailer (0.4.0)
> Service layer for easy email delivery and testing.
>
> actionpack (0.9.5)
> Web-flow and rendering framework putting the VC in MVC.
>
> activerecord (1.1.0)
> Implements the ActiveRecord pattern for ORM.
>
> rails (0.8.5)
> Web-application framework with template engine, control-flow layer,
> and ORM.
>
> rake (0.4.12, 0.4.11)
> Ruby based make-like utility.
>
> sources (0.0.1)
> This package provides download sources for remote gem installation
>
>
> The views are the standard tutorial views. They work fine until I try
> the code above.
>
> Also, is there a rails book in the works? I would really, really like
> one. I would pay exorbitant amounts of money for it.
>
> Much obliged,
>
>
> Sven Schott
>
> P.S. Thank you very much to the fine gentleman who wrote rails. Once I
> get the hang of it, I will throw Filemaker out the window.
>
>
>