Save Changes To for Rails

This Rails plugin makes a save_changes_to method available in ApplicationController which takes the name of an ActiveRecord model and updates the attributes of an instance of that model an appropriately named instance variable in the controller with the attributes in params corresponding to the model name.

Full documentation is at RubyDoc.info.

Example

The following

class UserController < ApplicationController
  def update
    save_changes_to(:user)
  end
end

is the equivalent of

class UserController < ApplicationController
  def update
    @user.update_attributes(params[:user])
  end
end

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Tested with

• Rails 3.0.5 — 20 May 2011

Contributing

• Source
• Bug reports

To send patches, please fork on GitHub and submit a pull request.

Credits

© 2011 Cody Robbins. See LICENSE for details.

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