From: Dark Ambient <sambient@...>
Date: 2006-10-10T02:56:59+09:00
Subject: Re: error: private method `gsub' called for :city:Symbol

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On 10/9/06, Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/9/06, Dark Ambient <sambient@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/9/06, Dark Ambient <sambient@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> >
> > 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/,"''")
> %>"/>


Yeah, I've thought about this way but it would cause more problems for me
later on.
Seems though that when I put right before it goes into the select statement
either AR or mysql is adding the backslahes for some reason.


Stuart

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