From: eden <eden.li@...>
Date: 2006-10-06T18:40:27+09:00
Subject: Re: RoR : Shortening this code

Zouplaz wrote:
> Mouvement.update(params[:id], statut ='#{:traite}'")

This isn't valid, did you mean? (note, the ")
 Mouvement.update(params[:id], "statut ='#{:traite}'")

The problem is not that Ruby can't stringify :traite, instead the
problem is that you've not read the RoR docs on update() well enough.
Please see:
  http://api.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M000864

If you've read this, you'd change your code to look like this:
  Mouvement.update(params[:id], { :statut => 'traite' })

Or, better yet
  Mouvement.find(params[:id]).update_attribute(:statut, 'traite')

Note, Rails will take the symbol and use to_yaml instead of to_s when
it saves the record, so you should explictly change it to a string
yourself before passing it in the update hash.