Ruby on Rails

Colin Law wrote:
> Rather than attempt to add a method to the String class, which is what
> you seem to be suggesting, You could add a method to your model that
> returns the id and name as a formatted string. So in order.rb
> something like
> def order_code
> "#{'%05d' % id} #{name}"
> end
> Then in the view just use
> <%= @order.order_code %>

Hi Colin,

Would this work if I wanted to put the leading zeros elsewhere in my app
(other views tied to other models and controllers)? Would I just
reference the Order model and then do this?

Thanks for your help,

--Matt
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