From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-06-21T17:09:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Update FK_ID at validation/save time in activerecor

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Eduardo Blumenfeld
<eblumenfeld@e-mbinfosys.com> wrote:
> I have:
>
> ------------------------
> class Customer < ActiveRecord::Base
>   belongs_to :Customer_Type
> end
>
> class Customer_Type < ActiveRecord::Base
>   has_many :Customers
> end
>
> ------------------------
>
> Is there a built-in way to auto populate customer_type_id
> based on the "Human name" of the Customer_Type_ID?
>
> ------------------------
> c = Customer.new( :name => "John Doe", :customer_type_name =>
> "Wholesale" )
> ------------------------
> # c[:Customer_Type_ID] == 10  (if 10 is the id for the "Wholesale"
> customer type)
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>
>

ActiveRecord questions are better placed on the Rails mailing list,
but here's a hint:

type = CustomerType.find_by_name("Wholesale")

Ammar