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Notes posted by tarvaina

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October 5, 2009
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Use camelize with singular words

To make the business example work, use camelize instead of classify:

"business".camelize     # => "Business"
June 4, 2009
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Security hole in 2.3.2

This method has a security hole in Rails 2.3.2. See http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/6/3/security-problem-with-authenticate_with_http_digest for explanation.

Rails 2.3.3 should fix the problem.

October 23, 2008
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Customizing attribute names in error messages

This can be used to customize attribute names in error messages. See my note in ActionView::Helpers::ActiveRecordHelper#error_messages_for.

October 23, 2008
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Customizing attribute names in error messages

By default, the error messages translate the names of the attributes through String#humanize. The way to to change that is to override the ActiveRecord::Base.human_attribute_name method.

For example, if you want to name a column in your database as :www_url and you want to say “Website” instead of “Www url” in the error message, you can put this into your model:

class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
  def self.human_attribute_name(attribute_key_name)
    if attribute_key_name.to_sym == :www_url
      "Website"
    else
      super
    end
  end
end

Currently this seems to be the cleanest and easiest way. Unfortunately, human_attribute_name is deprecated and may stop working in a future release of Rails.