New has_duration_field plugin

Posted by: Jake Dempsey on: November 1, 2009

• In: Ruby | Ruby on Rails
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Building on my previous post I created the has_duration_field plugin. As described, I wanted to represent a duration of time on a field in my model. Using the proxy_field plugin, I built the DurationField class and added it as the proxy for my columns tblk and tduty.

Before the has_duration_field plugin:

class Block < ActiveRecord::Base
  proxy_field [:tduty, :tblk], :as => DurationField
end

I just implemented my DurationField class and threw it in my lib dir. As I did that I realized that really using proxy_field and the implementation of DurationField would make a neat little plugin.

With the plugin you can do this:

class Block < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_duration_field [:tduty, :tblk]
end

The plugin just provides an implementation of the DurationField class for you and an easy way to make your column proxy to a DurationField.

Install:

./script/plugin install git://github.com/angelo0000/has_duration_field.git

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