I'm sure I'm miss understanding the use of call but I thought I could do something like this.
@case_studies = CaseStudy.call("some_named_scope")
Where "some_named_scope"
is also a named scope in CaseStudy
. The reason why I need to use call is because I have named scopes that are the same names of the actions in the controller so I'm hopping to do something like this.
@case_studies = CaseStudy.call(params[:action])
EDIT
Forgive me, I just realized I was thinking about the send method, some how the word call got stuck in my head. But @case_studies = CaseStudy.send(params[:action])
works as I thought it would.
If some_named_scope
is a named_scope of the CaseStudy
model, you can use send
to call the method corresponding to params[:action]
value. But this is obviously heavily exploitable.
So, security aside, you could get going with:
@case_studies = CaseStudy.send(params[:action])
Hope it works.
Although @kolrie has the correct answer, it is not safe at all.
It should be whitelisted as follows:
scope = ["first_scope", "second_scope", "default_scope"].include? params[:action] ? params[:scope] : "default_scope"
@case_studies = CaseStudy.send(scope)
If I understand what you mean, that's what you should call it:
@case_studies = CaseStudy.send(:some_named_scope)
You can use send to call a method and pass either a symbol or a string to it.