If you have a large number of settings/preferences on your model (like a company or a businesss) and you store each preference in a separate model or in separate columns on the model itself, it gets hairy, quickly.
Additionally you require those settings/preferences to be read in from a form and then you need an easy way to validate them too.
Personally, I found that putting settings in the database relationally was hellish.
SerialPreference stores preferences serialized in a hash in your model. All in one place with a DSL to define your settings along with validations and other niceties.
Scratching my own itch.
For boolean fields default value should be given as "true" "false" with quotes
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'serial_preference'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install serial_preference
class Company < ActiveRecord::Base
include SerialPreference::HasSerialPreferences
preferences do
preference :taxable data_type: :boolean, required: true, default: "true"
preference :vat_no required: false
preference :max_invoice_items data_type: :integer
float :rate_of_interest
# default data type is :string
# if the preference is required, then a validation is added to the model
# if the data type is numerical, then a numericality validation is added
# preferences can be grouped in preference groups
preference_group "Preferred Ledgers" do
income_ledger_id data_type: :integer, default: 1
end
password field_type: :password
end
end- Fetching Preference/Groups
# something you can customize in your form perhaps?
Company.preference_groups.each do |pg| # => returns an array of preference groups
# pg.name => Name of Preference Group as specified in map e.g. Preferred Ledgers
# pg.preferences => Array of Preference Definitions
pg.preferences.each do |preference|
# preference => PreferenceDefinition
f.input preference.name, required: preference.required?, placeholder: preference.default, as: preference.field_type
end
end # List of Preferences
Company.preference_names # => [:income_ledger_id]- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request
