From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T07:37:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting values from @params["variable"] with a string

Chris wrote:
...
> I want to loop through a bunch of column names and store a value from a 
> text field of the same name
> 
>     for column in Particular.content_columns
>    	@particular.'column.name'= params[:'column.name']
        @particular.send("#{column.name}=", params[column.name.to_sym])
>     end

You may want to cache the "#{column.name}=" strings somewhere so it
isn't constructed on each iteration. You could look it up in a hash that
maps column.name to the appropriate string or symbol.

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