From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2008-09-11T19:15:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting values from array of arrays

Hi --

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Allen Walker wrote:

> Thanks. I was following along in Pragmatic - Agile Web Development with
> Rails and they were using an Array of Arrays. But I changed it to a hash
> which makes more sense and it works.
>
> I know this isn't a rails forum but I am just commenting on your
> suggest.
>
> So you don't think:
> @news = Article.find( :all,
>                          :conditions => ["category = ?",
> Article::ARTICLE_CATEGORIES["News"]])
>
> should be in the controller but instead I should wrap that into a method
> in the model?

Yes. I don't think the controller should know the details of the
ARTICLE_CATEGORIES data structure.


David

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