Question

Basically, I want to generate an item, in this case, a ring. I have different TYPES of rings:

class Ring < ActiveRecord::Base

  DISPLAY_NAMES [ 'Silver', 'Gold', 'Diamond' ]

  attr_accessible :description, :display_name, :roll, :bonus, :total, :image, :gold

end

Is there a way to randomize the DISPLAY_NAMES of rings?

I’m guessing something like @ring.display_name = rand(Ring::DISPLAY_NAMES)?

Is there a better way to do this?

Once that is found, is there a way to set all other attributes of the ring, like @ring.roll and @ring.bonus, etc..

For example, if a ring comes up as silver, can I declare in the model some kind of if statement that states if the ring is silver and the other attributes are bla bla bla?

Thanks in advance. Learning slowly but surely.

Answer 1

To get a random entry from the DISPLAY_NAMES array do

@ring.display_name = DISPLAY_NAMES.sample

check http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Array.html#method-i-sample

For the second part, if the rest of the values are static and will not change, then I would just seed them in seed.rb

Populate the db with all the values for each [ 'Silver', 'Gold', 'Diamond' ]
So, you will have 3 records in the db for each name.

After that, you can do

@ring = Ring.find_by_display_name(DISPLAY_NAMES.sample)