Ruby on Rails

On 28 February 2011 04:01, Bhasker Harihara <harihara.bhasker@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw@googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> On 26 February 2011 14:31, Mauro <mrsanna1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I know it's a good practice setting attr_accesible for models.
>> > As an example if I have a model with admin: boolean attribute and if I
>> > don't set attr_accessible, a user can do: put /users/17?admin=1 making
>> > user 17 an admin.
>> > But if I have attr_accessible set and I want to create new users with
>> > a html form, how can I set admin true or false?
>> > I have to do an update directly in the database?
>>
>> You don't need a separate operation on the db.  In create or update in
>> the controller, before you call save or update_attributes, then set
>> the admin attribute if appropriate.
>>
>> Colin
>>
> Is it good practice to do in the models or in controllers.
>
> If it is models then all sorts of validations go in place.

To do exactly what in the model or controller? Presumably the
decision about whether a user is admin or not is made in a controller
action. You can then set @user.admin = true before saving, or you
could call a model method @user.set_admin(true). It is up to you
which you prefer.

Colin

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