I would like to know how can i get ID of currently created Model record, which was saved by Form Object. I have:
#object_form.save
id = #parent.objects.last.id
i would like to change it into something more meaningful like:\
#object_form.save
id = (currently saved OBJECT.id)
If you're saving the object, and if that save is successful, you'll be able to just reference the id of the newly saved object:
id = #object_form.id if #object_form.save
You have to remember that you're not saving the "form", but an ActiveRecord object. Thus, if you've still got the #instance_variable available from the save, it will return the newly populated id method.
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Using Devise to set the current user and current company,
I have an active record of User which contains certain fields that should not be exposed in some cases like password etc.
#<User email:*** password:***>
How can we select only selected attributes and keep them as active record object only.
output should be
#<User email:****>
current_user is getting created from devise helper.
In Active Record, you can use the select method to choose the attributes you want to retrieve from the database. Here's an example:
current_user.select(:email)
This will return a new Active Record object with only the email attribute populated, while keeping the other attributes as nil.
Note that select returns a new instance of the Active Record object and does not modify the original object. To persist the changes, you need to assign the result to a new variable or update the original object:
selected_user = current_user.select(:email)
Alternatively, you can use the attributes method to retrieve a hash of attribute names and values, and then select only the desired attributes:
attributes = current_user.attributes.slice("email")
selected_user = User.new(attributes)
This will give you a new instance of the User model with only the selected attributes.
Is there a way to get the params from URL in the create method?
My URL for the "new" view is:
/model_name/new?other_model_id=100
I would like to be able to alter the model with ID 100 when I create a new model. I've tried calling params[:other_model_id] in my "create" method, which returned nil and I tried setting the following variable in my "new" method:
#other_model = Model.find(params[:other_model_id])
I have a field called "other_versions" in my model, which is an array of model IDs. When I create a new model I want to add the new model's ID to the array of model IDs in the old model.
Why don't you use the after_createfilter (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_callbacks.html) and just add the "other_model" id on an hidden field on your create/edit form?
Please make sure, if you are using Rails >4, to add that parameter on your strong parameters (http://edgeapi.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/StrongParameters.html) otherwise it will always be empty when you check on params.
So I have a Customer model in my Rails app and whenever a new customer is created I am getting a number as input from the user and I want that number to become the id of the customer on my database instead of the default 1, 2, 3, and so on. Is it possible to do that? If so, how?
EDIT: Let me be a more clear about what I want: I have a Customer and A Brand model. A customer has_many brands and a brand belongs_to a customer. Whenever the user creates a new brand, I want to connect it to its customer using that number that the user entered for the customer. Right now, whenever the user creates a new brand, I ask him to enter the customer_id value to connect the brand to a customer, but that is the id number generated by Rails. How do I make that customer_id attribute refer to the specific number the user entered for a customer, instead of the customer id generated by Rails.
It's possible, but don't do that. Just allow Rails to manage the auto-generated ID itself, and add this number - whatever it is - as a separate attribute in your model and saved to a separate field in your database.
As smathy mentioned, you can do the following:
1.First, generate a migration that add your custom attribute
rails g migration AddCustomerIdToCustomers customer_id:integer
2.When user enter the id, you would want to do something like this:
#customer.customer_id=params[:customer_id]
#customer.save
3.Then you can retrieve the custom object as
#customer = Customer.find_by_customer_id(customer_id)
where customer_id is the id you want.
As the above answer suggests, it is better let Rails handle the id attribute, because it is used extensively in Rails to handle database relationships ActiveRecord queries, etc. You do not want the extra headache of modifying it yourself.
So lets say I am in /post/2. Which shows me the post with the ID of 2.
Now in controller, how can I see what the current post id is that is being viewed?
My case is a bit different because I am also rendering a partial from another controller into the posts page. And if I delete one of the entries from that partial, I will also need to know the current post id that is being watched.
I'm not sure I completely understand your question, but you can access the ID of any model by simply calling the id method on it. For example if you have a model called Post and an instance of it called #post you would get the id by calling #post.id.
You can get the ID of a model by simply calling id on it. Example: #post.id
If you didn't fetch the model from the database yet, you can get the ID parameter from the URL by accessing params[:id]
I have a master file for a widget and there can be many versions of that widget that share the same widgetmaster. So there are widgetMasters and widgetVersions tables on the db.
widgetMaster ID is an identity integer field and has an icollection of widgetversions set.
Widgetversion has a foreign key pointing to the widgetMaster ID it belongs to.
I have a "create new widget" form on my site. This is loaded after a button is pressed and it uses "createEntity" to create blank entities for widgetMaster and widgetVersion. The idea is that the parent "widgetMaster" is created at the same time the version "001" is created. The master just contains the description and a few category fields. The version contains the specific fields relating to this version of the widget and there may be dozens of versions eventually.
The user fills in all the fields and presses "save".
At this point I validate the form fields and, if all is ok, move on to saving the entity via "datacontext.saveChanges()" This is done in the viewmodel for my "create new" form view.
This works fine when creating the widgetMaster, but I need to have more control of this process I think... I need to set the foreign key on the widgetVersion entity AFTER The id is created by "savechanges" but BEFORE it attempts to save the widgetVersion entity.
As "datacontext.saveChanges()" appears to be a one-stop shop I'm entirely baffled as to how I can save the widgetVersion entity with the newly-created ID from the widgetmaster I just saved.
Alrighty then. I can't say whether it's the best way of doing it, but here's how I accomplish it. Refer to this stackoverflow question for a bit more info: Breeze bug? It's trying to add related entity even though only the primary entity is specified in savechanges()
My viewmodel save method (on the form entry view that allows the user to populate the fields in the new entities) is now this:
var save = function () {
isSaving(true);
//1st save widgetMaster
return datacontext.saveChanges(new Array(newWidgetMaster())).then(function (saveResult) {
//set version entity to have master id
newWidgetVersion().widgetMasterID(newWidgetMaster().id());
return datacontext.saveChanges(new Array(newWidgetVersion())).fin(complete);
}).fail(function (e) {
//do something with the alert
});
function complete() {
isSaving(false);
}
};