Question

How can I update these very similar text fields in a less verbose way? The text fields below are named as given – I haven’t edited them for this question.

  def update
    company = Company.find(current_user.client_id)
    company.text11 = params[:content][:text11][:value]
    company.text12 = params[:content][:text12][:value]
    company.text13 = params[:content][:text13][:value]
# etc
    company.save!
    render text: ""
  end

I’ve tried using send and to_sym but no luck so far…

Answer 1

[:text11, :text12, :text13].each do |s|
    company.send("#{s}=".to_sym, params[:content][s][:value])
end

If they are all incremental numbers, then:

11.upto(13).map{|n| "text#{n}".to_sym}.each do |s|
    company.send("#{s}=".to_sym, params[:content][s][:value])
end