Question

I’ve come from Django and was wondering how do I specify the default value of model if referenced just by calling it. Ie. <= @user %>

In Django, we can use in the model class;

def __unicode__(self):
    return self.fieldname

And it will use whatever field name or combined string we specify. Is this possible in rails?

Cheers,
Ben

Answer 1

You probably want to define to_s in your model:

def to_s
  fieldname
end

Then in a view, you can do <%= @user %> and it’ll output the fieldname you specify above.