From: Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@...>
Date: 2006-10-10T01:54:13+09:00
Subject: Re: error: private method `gsub' called for :city:Symbol

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On 10/9/06, Dark Ambient <sambient@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 10/9/06, Dark Ambient <sambient@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I googled around on this one but found nothing.  Anyone know what these
> > error means ?
> > I'm trying to use it in a form field :
> >
> > <%= text_field(:search,:city.gsub(/\s/, "''")) %></fieldset>
> >
> > But also found the same error when using it on an instance variable.
> >
> > TIA
> > Stuart
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>
> Also I found another place to add it and it inserted some backslahes
> so the orignal text is 'atlanta boston'
> I'm trying to insert 2 '' between atlanta and boston which works fine
> standalone but in my app (inserted into a query) it comes out as such
> 'boston\'\'atlanta'
> But if I leave the regex out it's as shown above


Well the regex isn't doing what you think it's doing.  Rails automagically
converts :city, to the value of a field in your model named City.  When you
say :city.gsub   Ruby reads this as "do a gsub on the symbol :city", it
doesn't know that later on Rails will make that a string with another
value.  IMO the easiest way around this would be to not use the helper and
do something like:

<input type="text" name="city" value="<%=@search.city.gsub(/\s/,"''") %>"/>

But that's just off the top of my head, and I don't do a lot of Rails work,
so take it with a slight grain of salt.

Stuart
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