Notes posted by zubin

Warning: prevents persistence but doesn't prevent setting

For example:

class Widget < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_readonly :key
end
w = Widget.create! key: 'foo'
w.update! key: 'bar'
w.key #=> 'bar'
w.reload.key #=> 'foo'

Beware: virtual attributes are ignored

Even though validations are called, virtual attributes are ignored.

How to specify :only_path when non-hash options

When passing in an object, as opposed to a hash, you can’t do this because url_for accepts one argument:

url_for(post, :only_path => true)

Instead, do this:

polymorphic_url(object, :routing_type => :path)

case-insensitive uniqueness

For case-insensitive uniqueness:

validate :username, :uniqueness => {:case_sensitive => false}

When scripts don't end in .js

For example, Google Custom Search’s URL is http://www.google.com/jsapi

It’s an ugly hack, but works:

= javascript_include_tag('http://www.google.com/jsapi').sub('.js', '')