From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2008-03-01T06:09:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Model Commands


On Feb 29, 2008, at 10:01 PM, Mariko C. wrote:

> I'd like to do something like this in my RoR code:
>
>
> name = "james"
> box = Box.find(1)
> box_name = box.name
>
> Where "james" is an existing column in table Box. I try to do this but
> RoR tells me "undefined method `name' for #<Box:0x333a81c>". Is it
> possible to get around this? Basically what I have is a list of  
> strings
> that I need to use as column commands.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>

You want to send a message with to the method "james". What you are  
doing is sending a message to the method "name".

What you want to do is:

=== code ===

name = "james"
box = Box.find(1)
box_name = box.send(name)

=== code ===

I don't know what you want to acomplish, but this is how it works.

Greetings
Florian Gilcher