Question

I have the following methods that I want to use in my controller:

  def store
    "#{business_name} - #{address}" if self.online_store == false
  end

  def webstore
    "#{business_name} - #{website}" if self.online_store == true
  end

Right now I am using only 1 of them:

format.json { render :json => @business_stores.collect{|b|{:id => b.id, :name => b.store } } }

I need the :name to search for b.store and b.webstore, how can I do this?

Answer 1

Why don’t you create only one method

def store
  if self.online_store == false
    "#{business_name} - #{address}"
  else
    "#{business_name} - #{website}"
  end  
end

And when you will ask for it will know if it’s the online store or not